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Genus of true bugs

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).

Although this Tasmanian leaf-footed bug was first described in 1841 by Élie Jean François Le Guillou as Syromastes tasmanicus, it wasn't until 1873 that Carl Stål placed it in his newly formed genus Gelonus, as Gelonus tasmanicus. Stål created the genus Gelonus in 1865 in volume two of his three volume Hemiptera Africana. The following year he categorized the type species of the genus as Gelonus discolor, the bug described by William Dallas in 1852 as Amorbus discolor. 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.

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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. ^ 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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