Species Olonia monteithi Constant, 2018

Museums

Regional Maps

• Olonia monteithi 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 [52].
  Zoobank Registration Number:B4773609-83FD-4B11-9982-D4F96C291299

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T24410 ♂ (coll: G. Monteith & D. Cook, 12.ix.1981, 800m, open forest), Bakers Blue Mt, 17 km W Mt Molloy, Queensland [16°42′ S 145°09′ E].

 

Introduction

This species is based on a single male and female from a small refuge in the Einasleigh Uplands bioregion of North Queensland. It is dedicated to Geoff Monteith who collected the specimens.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species can be recognized by the following combination of characters: (1) hind wings without orange and with apical margin bordered with white in females; (2) pro- and mesofemora and -tibiae largely black-brown; (3) anal tube of male obovate after epiproct and with posterior margin truncate; (4) centroventral part of gonostyli with strong pointed processes curved laterally; (5) laterodorsal part of gonostyli bifid, with dorsal process shorter than ventral one and both directed posteriorly; (6) medium size: 8.3–9.7 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 [52]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	EURYBRACHIDAE Stål, 1862	18-Dec-2018	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher