Species Olonia picea Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Olonia picea Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [445].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: vii-viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.

  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 [64].

 

Introduction

This species was synonymised with O. transversa by Jacobi (1928). The synonymy was rejected by Constant (2005) who regarded O. transversa as a nomen dubium since the specimen labelled as the type of this species in BMNH does not match Walker's (1858) original description of the species and the specimen has been identified by Constant as a male of Gelastopsis insignis Kirkaldy. The identity of O. picea was established by Constant (2018) with the designation of a lectotype.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Piceous; sterna, abdomen and basal half of posterior femora, sanguineous. Tegmina piceous, the disk ferruginous more or less darkened in places, a short white stripe near the apex (sometimes obsolescent). Wings dark smoky. Vertex and eyes a trifle wider than pronotum, the first named about four times as wide as long; frons irregularly longitudinally rugulose. Male: genital segment dark. Female: genital segment pale, a large white spot on costa, anteriorly. Length: (male) 7–7.25; (female) 7.5–8 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

This species can be recognized by the following combination of characters: (1) hind wings without orange marking; (2) pro- and mesofemora and tibiae largely black-brown; (3) anal tube of male obovate, narrowing at basal ⅓; (4) centroventral part of gonostyli with strong, elongate process curved laterally and pointed apically; (5) laterodorsal part of gonostyli strongly bifid, with dorsal and ventral process forming a C; (6) rather small size: 6.5–7.5 mm. Females cannot be distinguished from females of the sympatric O. maura (Constant 2018).

 

ID Keys

Constant 2019: 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 [64]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [445]

 

General References

Constant, J. 2005. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (IV). The Australian genus Gelastopsis Kirkaldy, 1906 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 75: 57-69 [66]

 

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
		18-Nov-2010	ADDED