''Gelonus'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of leaf-footed bugs (

Coreidae Coreidae is a large family (biology), family of predominantly sap-sucking insects in the Hemipteran suborder Heteroptera. The name "Coreidae" derives from the genus ''Coreus'', which derives from the Ancient Greek () meaning bedbug. As a fam ...

) in

Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...

, one of the few Coreidae that feeds on

eucalypt Eucalypt is any woody plant with Capsule (fruit), capsule fruiting bodies belonging to one of seven closely related genera (of the tribe Eucalypteae) found across Australia: ''Eucalyptus'', ''Corymbia'', ''Angophora'', ''Stockwellia'', ''Allosyn ...

s. It is a member of the tribe Amorbini, but has only a single species, ''Gelonus tasmanicus'' . Although this

n 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 Carl Stål (21 March 1833 – 13 June 1878) was a Swedish people, Swedish entomologist specialising in Hemiptera. He was born at Karlberg Castle, Stockholm on 21 March 1833 and died at Frösundavik near Stockholm on 13 June 1878. He was the son ...

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 William Sweetland Dallas (1824–1890) was a British zoologist and curator. He curated collections at the British Museum and the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and was editor of the '' Popular Science Review''. Biography He was appoi ...

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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Coreinae Coreidae genera Monotypic Hemiptera genera Arthropods of Tasmania {{Coreoidea-stub

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