Species Olonia nobilis (Stål, 1863)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lyncilia nobilis Stål, C. 1863. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Fulgoriden. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 24: 230-251 [248].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMPA ♀ (coll: A. Dohrn), Lizard Island, Queensland [14°40′08″ S 145°27′34″ E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Platybrachys nobilis (Stål, 1863). —
  Fennah, R.G. 1964. Three new genera of Eurybrachyidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) from West Africa and Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 33(9-10): 157-162 [160]
• Olonia nobilis (Stål, 1863). —
  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 [57]

 

Introduction

This species is only known from Lizard Island in far North Queensland. It has had a reasonably uncertain taxonomic history but its identity was finally established by Constant (2018). The species has been recorded on Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Roth (family Convolvulaceae).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Lizard Island

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Ipomaea pes-caprae (L.) Roth [CONVOLVULACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Nigra; metathorace, abdomine coxisque posticis coccineis, ventre apice nigro; tegminibus (expansis) disco indeterminate fuscescente-cinnamomeis, ibidem pallidius conspersis, corii limbo apicali albido, ejusdem macula transversa ante medium clavique macula media stramineis; alis nigro-fuscis, basi dilutioribus, macula maxima discoidali dilute lutescente, limbo apicali albido. ♀ Long. 7.5, Exp. 22 mill. (Stål 1863)

This species can be recognized by the following combination of characters: (1) hind wings with large conspicuous orange marking and with narrow apical white border in females; (2) pro- and mesofemora and -tibiae largely black-brown; (3) anal tube of male acuminate apically and narrowing basally to level of epiproct; (4) centroventral part of gonostyli with long and narrow process curved ventrointernally; (5) laterodorsal part of gonostyli with long and narrow process curved ventrally; (6) rather large size: 9–11 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 [57]

Stål, C. 1863. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Fulgoriden. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 24: 230-251 [248–249]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	14-Nov-2023	MODIFIED
04-Jun-2020	EURYBRACHIDAE Stål, 1862	14-Nov-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
23-Dec-2019	EURYBRACHIDAE Stål, 1862	14-Nov-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
20-Dec-2018	EURYBRACHIDAE Stål, 1862	14-Nov-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
30-Nov-2010		14-Nov-2023	MODIFIED
		14-Nov-2023	MODIFIED