Species Olonia rylandae Constant, 2018

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• Olonia rylandae Constant, 2018.
  Zoobank Registration Number:1F0498E0-6DD9-48AD-AB8D-2369364963CE

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (coll: Hale & Tindale, i.1927), Bathurst Head, Queensland [14°16′ S 144°12′ E].

 

Introduction

This species is based on a single male specimen from the Cape York Peninsula bioregion of North Queensland. The name was dedicated to Mrs Valry Ryland (Magnetic Island, Queensland) in acknowledgement for help she provided to the author and involvement in documenting the natural history of species of Olonia as published in Constant (2018).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species can be recognized by the following combination of characters: (1) hind wings without orange marking; (2) pro- and mesofemora and -tibiae mostly brown; (3) anal tube of male oblong, with posterior margin slightly concave and lateral margins sinuate; (4) centroventral part of gonostyli with elongate and narrow process strongly sinuate basally and with small apical hook pointing ventrally' (5) laterodorsal part of gonostyli with elongate and narrow process slightly curved lateroventrally; (6) rather small size: 7.7 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 [72]

 

History of changes

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