Species Olonia maura (Fabricius, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cicada maura Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Ryngota. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. 816 pp. [dated 1775] [686].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ (63 47”, #668802), Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Constant, J. 2018. Revision of the Eurybrachidae XIV. The Australian genera Olonia Stål, 1862 and Stalobrachys gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). European Journal of Taxonomy 486: 1–97 [45].

 

Generic Combinations

• Olonia maura (Fabricius, 1775). —
  Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [89]
• Eurymela maura (Fabricius, 1775). —
  Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [507]
• Eurymeloides maura (Fabricius, 1775). —
  Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [105]

 

Introduction

The material described by Fabricius was collected on James Cook’s first voyage to Australia in 1770, almost certainly at Cooktown in the Wet Tropics of North Queensland. Signoret (1850) gave the locality as New Holland which included the entire east coast of mainland Australia at that time but his understanding of the species was based on a misidentification of a member of the leafhopper tribe Eurymelini (Constant 2018)..The identity of the species has been established by Constant (2018) who has restricted its distribution to the Wet Tropics and Cape York Peninsula bioregions.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

The species can be recognized by the following combination of characters: (1) hind wings without orange marking; (2) pro- and mesofemora and -tibiae largely dark brown; (3) anal tube of male spatulate, constricted at half length; (4) centroventral part of gonostyli with strong elongate process tapering distally and with 4–5 apical teeth; (5) laterodorsal part of gonostyli with strong furcate process, elongate process strongly curved posterolaterally; (6) rather small size: 7–8 mm (Constant 2018).

 

ID Keys

Constant 2018: 11–12

 

Diagnosis References

Constant, J. 2018. Revision of the Eurybrachidae XIV. The Australian genera Olonia Stål, 1862 and Stalobrachys gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). European Journal of Taxonomy 486: 1–97 [44–45]

Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [507–508]

 

General References

Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [508]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Dec-2018	EURYBRACHIDAE Stål, 1862	19-Dec-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
30-Nov-2010		30-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)