Genus Hackerobrachys Constant, 2006

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hackerobrachys Constant, J. 2006. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (VII). The Australian genera Hackerobrachys and Fletcherobrachys (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie 76: 31-40 [32].

  Type species:

   Olonia viridiventris Stål, 1863 by original designation.

Introduction

This monotypic genus was created to include a species excluded from its original genus Olonia Stål by Constant (2006). The species ranges down the eastern seaboard of Australia from SE Queensland to the Sydney region in NSW. The species, along with those in related genera, appears to be associated primarily if not exclusively with broad-phyllodinous wattles (Acacia spp, family Mimosaceae). The etymology for the generic name was given by Constant 92006) as "Name formed by the juxtaposition of the words Hacker, in memory of the late Henry Hacker who published his interesting field notes on Australian Eurybrachidae in 1924, and brachys (Greek word meaning “short”) which is a common ending of the names of the genera among the family Eurybrachidae."

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Medium sized, blackish brown coloured. Differs from all other Australian genera by the following combination of characters: strongly convex, twice as broad as long frons; legs slender; first hind tarsomere without pad of setae ventrally; tegmina flat; hind wings unicolorous, blackish brown; thorax broader than pro and mesonotum together. (Constant 2010)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2000). Illustrated Key to the Genera of the family Eurybrachidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/eurybrachidae/eurygen00.htm

Diagnosis References

Constant, J. 2006. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (VII). The Australian genera Hackerobrachys and Fletcherobrachys (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie 76: 31-40 [33]

General References

Constant, J. 2006. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (VII). The Australian genera Hackerobrachys and Fletcherobrachys (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie 76: 31-40 [32]