Species Zoraida (Zoraida) sexnotata (Walker, 1870)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thracia sexnotata Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected in the Indian Archipelago by Mr A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10: 82-193 [139].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, quantity unknown (may be holotype by monotypy), Aru, Indonesia.
• Zoraida cydista Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [402].

  Type data:

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

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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

Generic Combinations

• Zoraida sexnotata (Walker, 1870). —
  Muir, F. 1918. Notes on the Derbidae in the British Museum collection. I. Zoraidinae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 54: 173-177 [176]

Introduction

This species was described from the Aru Islands in Indonesia by Walker (1870) and from Queensland by Distant (1907) as Z. cydista. Distant did not provide a more specific type locality 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 that region. Muir (1913) added Papua New Guinea to the distribution.

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

Testaceous, whitish yellow beneath. Vertex and front extremely narrow, forming a keel between the eyes. Antennae pale testaceous. Hind part of the thorax whitish. Abdomen with a black stripe along each side, bright red at the tip and with a bright red band near the base. Legs whitish yellow. Wings pellucid; veins black. Fore wings with three brown subcostal spots and three brown apical spots; transverse veins hardly clouded with brown; costa bright red. Hind wings about one-third of the length of the fore wings. Length of the body 2 lines, of the wings 9 lines (Walker 1870).

Diagnosis References

Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected in the Indian Archipelago by Mr A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10: 82-193 [139]

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. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [69–70]

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