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]
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Scientific classification 
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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 |
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]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Stål, Carl (1873). "Enumeratio Hemipterorum: Gelonus Stål". Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 11 (2). Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: 1–163, page 53.
- ^ Stål, Carl (1865). Hemiptera Africana, Volume 2. Holmiæ (Stockholm): Norstedtiana. p. 3.
- ^ Stål, Carl (1866). "Analecta Hemipterologica". Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 10: 151–172, page 158.
- ^ 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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