Species Zoraida (Zoraida) picta Distant, 1907

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• Zoraida picta Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [403].

  Type data:

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

Introduction

The type locality is given by Distant (1907) as Queensland but the 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 presumed that the material originated in this region. This is the only species placed by Muir (1918) in his second species group with the hindwing less than one seventh the length of the forewing.

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

Above and beneath pale ochraceous; eyes black; pronotum stramineous; abdomen above with angulate fasciate sanguineous markings and with a curved black discal line on each side a little beyond middle; tegmina hyaline, the veins fuscous, costal area pale testaceous, an oblique black spot in subcostal area at about two thirds from base and a black spot at its apex, the veins emanating from the subcostal vein black at their bases; mesonotum faintly tricarinate; second joint of antennae minutely black-speckled, with its apex darker ochraceous, as long as head and thorax together. Long., excl. tegm., 4.5 mm; exp. tegm. 21 mm (Distant 1907).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [403]

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]

Muir, F. 1918. Notes on the Derbidae in the British Museum collection. I. Zoraidinae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 54: 173-177 [176]

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