Species Zoraida (Zoraida) essingtonii (Westwood, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Derbe (Thracia) essingtonii Westwood, J.O. 1851. Descriptions of some new species of exotic homopterous insects. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 7: 207-210 [210].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) sex, quantity unknown ("Mus. Westwood" now in BMNH?), Port Essington, Northern Territory.

Generic Combinations

• Zoraida essingtonii (Westwood, 1851). —
  Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [402]
• Thracia essingtonii (Westwood, 1851). —
  Walker, F. 1852. Supplement. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 4 pp. 1119-1169. [1138]

Introduction

This species has not appeared in the literature since being listed by Muir (1918). It is the only Zoraida known from the Northern Territory but there are probably undescribed species to be found there.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Tiwi Cobourg (TIW)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

D. luteo-fulva pronoti lateribus albo-granulatis, mesonoto carinis tribus angustis pallidis, scutello albido, abdominis segmentis intermediis piceis albido-granulatis, pedibus albidis; alis anticis fusco-albidis fusco-maculatis, costa alba puncto majori ante apicem, maculaque obliqua apicali fuscis, antennis rufescenti-granulatis.—Long. corp. lin. 2. Expans. alar, antic, lin. 11. (Westwood 1851)

Diagnosis References

Westwood, J.O. 1851. Descriptions of some new species of exotic homopterous insects. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 7: 207-210 [210]

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