Subgenus Zoraida (Zoraida) Kirkaldy, 1900

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• Zoraida Kirkaldy, G.W. 1900. Bibliographical and nomenclatorial notes on the Rhynchota. No. 1. The Entomologist 33(448): 238-243 [242] [replacement name; for Thracia Westwood, 1840].

  Type species:

   Derbe sinuosa Boheman, 1838 by original designation.
• Thracia Westwood, J.O. 1840. Observations on the genus Derbe of Fabricius. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1: 82-85 [84] [junior homonym; of Thracia Leach, 1823; first introduced as a subgenus of Derbe Fabricius, 1803].

  Type species:

   Derbe sinuosa Boheman, 1838 (=Thracia sinuosa (Boheman, 1838)) by subsequent designation, see Kirkaldy, G.W. 1900. Bibliographical and nomenclatorial notes on the Rhynchota. No. 1. The Entomologist 33(448): 238-243 [242].

Introduction

This subgenus is one of three created by Muir (1918) when he split the genus Zoraida and all the known Australian species were placed into the nominate subgenus. He further divided this subgenus into two species groups based on the length of the hindwing relative to the length of the tegmen. Both groups are represented in Australia with most of our species in the first group defined by having the hindwing one-third to one-half the length of the tegmen while Z. picta Distant is in the second group, defined by having the hindwing one-seventh to one-tenth the length of the tegmen.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Four cubital veins reaching hind margin of the tegmina; antennae cylindrical or only slightly flattened, not thin (Muir 1918).

ID Keys

Muir 1918: 175

Diagnosis References

Muir, F. 1918. Notes on the Derbidae in the British Museum collection. I. Zoraidinae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 54: 173-177 [175]

History of changes