Species Olonia transversa (Walker, 1858)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurybrachys transversa Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [96] [nomen dubium].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH missing (specimen labelled as type in BMNH is ♂ of Gelastopsis insignis and not Walker's type), Moreton Bay, Queensland.

  Secondary source:

   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].

Generic Combinations

• Olonia transversa (Walker, 1858). —
  Stål, C. 1862. Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 19(9): 479-504 [488]

Introduction

The identity of this species cannot be determined because the specimen labelled as the type in BMNH was identified by Constant (2005) as a male of Gelastopsis insignis Kirkaldy which does not match Walker's original description of O. transversa. Constant (2005) considered O. transversa to be a nomen dubium. Walker (1858) described the species from Moreton Bay, Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Nigra, subtus late rufa; caput et thorax lituris paucis testaceis; frons et facies strigis plurimis transversis undulatis testaceis; frons trigona; facies minima; prothorax brevissimus; mesothorax tricarinatus; pedes rufo conspersi, femoribus posticis rufis; alae anticae lituris plurimis luridis, punctis costalibus albis, gutta costali exteriore fasciaque subapicali vitreis, venis obscure rufis; posticae atrae.

Black, bright red beneath. Head and thorax with a few testaceous marks. Vertex very slightly arched, shining by the front; front and face with numerous transverse undulating testaceous streaks; front triangular; face very small. Prothorax very short. Mesothorax with three slight keels. Legs speckled with red; hind femora red. Fore wings thickly sprinkled with lurid marks, with white points along the costa, with a vitreous costal spot at two thirds of the length, and with a vitreous subapical band; veins dark red. Hind wings deep black. Length of the body 2 1/2 lines; of the wings 7 lines (Walker 1858).

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