Revision of the Eurybrachidae XIV. The Australian genera Olonia Stål, 1862 and Stalobrachys gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha)
Author
Constant, Jérôme
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2018
2018-12-13
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Olonia rylandae
sp. nov.
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Figs 3
,
45–46
Diagnosis
This species can be recognized by the following combination of characters:
(1) hind wings without orange marking (
Fig. 45E
)
(2) pro- and mesofemora and -tibiae mostly brown (
Fig. 45A–D
)
(3) anal tube of male oblong, with posterior margin slightly concave and lateral margins sinuate (
Fig. 46B
)
(4) centroventral part of gonostyli with elongate and narrow process strongly sinuate basally and with small apical hook pointing ventrally (
Fig. 46A, C
)
(5) laterodorsal part of gonostyli with elongate and narrow process slightly curved lateroventrally (
Fig. 46A, C–D
)
(6) rather small size:
7.7 mm
Etymology
This species is dedicated to Mrs Valry Ryland (
Magnetic Island
,
Queensland
,
Australia
) in acknowledgement for all her help and involvement in documenting the natural history of species of
Olonia
.
Material examined
Holotype
AUSTRALIA
•
♂
;
Queensland
,
Bathurst Head
; [
14°16′ S
,
144°12′ E
]; “Bathurst Head, Q.,
Jan. 1927
, Hale & Tindale”; dissected, right anterior leg missing, right posterior wing mounted;
SAM
.
Description
MEASUREMENTS AND RATIOS. LT: ♂ (n = 1):
7.7 mm
; BV/LV = 4.38; BF/LF = 1.7; LP+LM/BT = 0.67; LTg/BTg = 2.5; LW/BW = 2.0.
Male
HEAD (
Fig. 45A–D
). Vertex concave, with anterior and posterior margins parallel, curved; brown, slightly wrinkled. Frons uniformly brown, slightly wrinkled. Clypeus elongate, brown. Genae yellowish with brown markings around eyes and under antennae. Labium dark brown, reaching metacoxae. Antennae black-brown; scape short, ring-shaped; pedicel subcylindrical, slightly narrowing towards apex.
Fig. 45.
Olonia rylandae
sp. nov.
, holotype, ♂.
A
. Habitus, dorsal view.
B
. Habitus, ventral view.
C
. Habitus, lateral view.
D
. Habitus, normal view of frons.
E
. Posterior wing.
THORAX (
Fig. 45A–C
). Pronotum brown with small yellowish spot on each side; slightly wrinkled; obsolete median carina and 2 small impressed points on disc. Lateral fields of prothorax brown. Mesonotum brown; yellowish spot on middle of anterior margin and at apex of scutellum; slightly rugulose; median and peridiscal carinae weakly marked; median carina stopping before scutellum; slight impression before scutellum. Red ventrally. Tegulae brown.
Fig. 46.
Olonia rylandae
sp. nov.
, holotype, ♂, genitalia.
A
. Pygofer, anal tube and gonostyli, left lateral view.
B
. Anal tube, dorsal view.
C
. Pygofer and gonostyli, ventral view.
D
. Laterodorsal part of left gonostylus, dorsal view.
E
. Aedeagus, left lateral view.
F
. Aedeagus, dorsal view. Abbreviations:
An
= anal tube;
G
= gonostyli;
Py
= pygofer.
TEGMINA (
Fig. 45A, C
). Brown, slightly variegated with yellowish; pale yellowish marking on vein A1 at midlength of clavus; marked with black along costal margin, more broadly so on posterior half, and along posterior margin. Triangular white marking on costal margin on nodal line; no white spot at apicosutural angle. Costal and sutural margins subparallel; costal margin slightly sinuate; apical margin obliquely rounded.
POSTERIOR WINGS (
Fig. 45E
). Brown, paler on anal area and with large blackish area reaching apical margin; elongate, transverse, subtriangular white marking at apicocostal angle, extending on 3–4 cells. Margin of anal area slightly sinuate; sutural margin with 1 cleft, cubital one nearly not marked.
LEGS (
Fig. 45A–D
). All coxae brown. Pro- and mesofemora dark brown. Pro- and mesotibiae brown, turning blackish apically, and with 3 very obsolete paler rings. Pro- and mesotarsi brown, with basal half of third tarsomere paler. Metafemora pale brown with apex darker. Metatibiae brown, with 3 lateral spines paler basally and 8 apical black-brown spines. Metatarsi brown, with a ventral row of 6 black spines on first tarsomere.
ABDOMEN. Bright red with genital segments black-brown.
MALE GENITALIA (
Fig. 46
). Posterior margin of pygofer in lateral view strongly sinuate, rather angularly, roundly projecting at dorsal ½ and rather broad ventrally (
Fig. 46A, C
). Anal tube oblong, 2.9 times as long as broad, broader at apical ¾, with lateral margins sinuate and apical margin concave; lateral margins curved ventrally on apical ¾; slightly curved ventrally near base in lateral view (
Fig. 46A–B
). Gonostyli fused on slightly less than basal half of length of centroventral part and projecting posteriorly (
Fig. 46A, C
). Centroventral part broad and dorsoventrally flattened on basal half, then strongly narrowing into elongate, narrow process, strongly sinuate basally in lateral view and ending in narrow hook curved anteroventrally (
Fig. 46A, C
). Laterodorsal part of gonostyli elongate and slightly curved posteroventrally, posteriorly slightly surpassing level of centroventral part; lateral process elongate, projecting posterolaterally, slightly concave dorsally and longer than spoon-shaped process (
Fig. 46A, C–D
). Dorsal portion of phallobase with hooked process on each side, narrowing in 2 steps from base to apex, directed posterocentrally and with apex pointing dorsally (
Fig. 46E–F
). Ventral portion of phallobase elongate and narrow, curved posteroventrally (
Fig. 46E–F
). Phallus dorsoventrally flattened, medially concave, broadening towards apex and emarginate apically (
Fig. 46E–F
).
Female
Unknown.
Distribution and biology
This species is only known from a single male from Bathurst Head, a headland covered with open forest close to Cape Melville on the eastern coast of Cape York Peninsula (
Fig. 3
), in the Cape York Peninsula Tropical Savanna bioregion. It was collected in January, nearly one century ago.