Gelonus (bug) explained

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 .^[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.

See also

• International Code of Zoological Nomenclature

Notes and 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. 10.1664/0028-7199(2006)114[72:ANGASO]2.0.CO;2. 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. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 11. 2. 1 - 163, page 53.
4. Book: Stål, Carl. 1865. Hemiptera Africana, Volume 2. Holmiæ (Stockholm). Norstedtiana. 3.
5. Stål, Carl. 1866. Analecta Hemipterologica. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 10. 151 - 172, page 158.
6. Book: William Dallas

   . Dallas, William Sweetland. William Dallas. 1852. List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, II. London. British Museum (Natural History). 411 - 412.