Species Zoraida (Zoraida) cycnoptera Distant, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Zoraida cycnoptera Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [401].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Zoraida cyanoptera Distant, 1907. —
  Muir, F. 1918. Notes on the Derbidae in the British Museum collection. I. Zoraidinae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 54: 173-177 [176] (subsequent misspelling)

Introduction

As with many of the species described by Distant (1907), this species was simply located from Queensland. However, the type material was collected by F.P. Dodd who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland (Monteith 1991) and it is probable that the type material originated in this region.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

Pronotum, mesonotum, scutellum, body beneath, and legs stramineous; abdomen above, posterior disk of pronotum, vertex of head, face, and clypeus testaceous; tegmina hyaline, the venation fuscous, costal area for about one third from base fuscous brown, with creamy-white spots, remaining area ochraceous, with a prominent black spot before apex, costal and subcostal veins testaceous red, upper apical area piceous, apical margin and extremities of apical veins testaceous red in ♂, in ♀ the two central extremities stramineous; wings hyaline, the venation fuscous; mesonotum tricarinate, the central carination continued through pronotum; clypeus centrally and laterally carinate. Long., excl. tegm. ♂ 4.5, ♀ 6 mm; exp. tegm., ♂24; ♀ 30 mm (Distant 1907).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [401–402]

General References

Monteith, G.B. 1991. The Butterfly Man of Kuranda, Frederick Parkhurst Dodd. South Brisbane : Queensland Museum 1, 34 pp. [ISBN 0 7242 4481 6]

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