Species Olonia soulierae Constant, 2018

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• Olonia soulierae Constant, 2018.
  Zoobank Registration Number:6670A1E7-F89F-4D93-901E-49DD861B6539

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T244702 ♂ (coll: A. Soulier-Perkins & T. Bourgoin, 13.iii.1997.), Haunted Cave, near Chillagoe, Queensland [17°06′ S 144°25′ E].

 

Introduction

This species is only known from one locality in the Einasleigh Uplands bioregion of North Queensland. Adeline Soulier-Perkins and Thierry Bourgoin (MNHN, Paris) collected nine specimens in one day which indicates that the species is fairly common within its range. It is named after Adeline Soulier-Perkins.

 

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 with orange marking; (2) pro- and mesofemora and -tibiae largely black-brown; (3) anal tube of male narrow and parallel-sided on basal ⅓, then ovate with posterior margin notched; (4) centroventral part of gonostyli with long and narrow process, slightly sinuate basally and with apical hook pointing dorsally; (5) laterodorsal part of gonostyli with hooked process curved lateroventrally; (6) large size: 9.4–11.2 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 [75–76]

 

History of changes

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