Gelonus (bug)

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Gelonus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Coreidae
Subfamily: Coreinae
Tribe: Amorbini
Genus: Gelonus
Stål, 1865

Gelonus is a genus of leaf-footed bugs (Coreidae) in Tasmania, one of the few Coreidae that feeds on eucalypts. It is a member of the tribe Amorbini, but has only a single species, Gelonus tasmanicus(Le Guillou, 1841). [1]

Although this Tasmanian leaf-footed bug was first described in 1841 by Élie Jean François Le Guillou as Syromastes tasmanicus, [2] it wasn't until 1873 that Carl Stål placed it in his newly formed genus Gelonus, as Gelonus tasmanicus. [3] Stål created the genus Gelonus in 1865 in volume two of his three volume Hemiptera Africana. [4] The following year he categorized the type species of the genus as Gelonus discolor, [5] the bug described by William Dallas in 1852 as Amorbus discolor. [6] In 1873, Stål established the synonymity of the two species, with Gelonus discolor being the junior synonym, and le Guillon's Gelonus tasmanicus the senior. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Brailovsky, H. (2006). "A new genus and species of Amorbini from Papua New Guinea (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae), with a key to the known genera". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 114 (1): 72–77. doi:10.1664/0028-7199(2006)114[72:ANGASO]2.0.CO;2. S2CID   85823917.
  2. ↑ Le Guillou, Élie Jean François (1841). "Envoie la descriptes des Hémyptères nouveau qu'il a recueillis pendant son voyage de circumnavigation sur la corvette la Zélće. Voici ses phrases descriptives". Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne. 4: 260–263, page 263.
  3. 1 2 Stål, Carl (1873). "Enumeratio Hemipterorum: Gelonus Stål". Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 11 (2). Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: 1–163, page 53.
  4. ↑ Stål, Carl (1865). Hemiptera Africana, Volume 2. Holmiæ (Stockholm): Norstedtiana. p.  3.
  5. ↑ Stål, Carl (1866). "Analecta Hemipterologica". Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 10: 151–172, page 158.
  6. ↑ Dallas, William Sweetland (1852). List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, II. London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. 411–412.


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