Species Zoraida (Zoraida) eupoecila Distant, 1907

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• Zoraida eupoecila 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), Kuranda, Queensland.

Introduction

This is one of the few species described from Queensland by Distant (1907) which has a type locality more specific than "Queensland".

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

Head, antennae, pronotum, mesonotum, scutellum and abdomen tawny brown; sternum and legs stramineous; carinations to pronotum and mesonotum distinctly paler and pale ochraceous in hue; eyes black; tegmina very pale fuliginous, subhyaline, infuscated on basal area, where there is a distinct white spot beneath radial area, veins fuscous, costal area greyish white, with an elongate fuscous spot near middle and another nearer apical area; beneath the costal area the colour is narrowly fuscous, broken with a large creamy-white spot just before the second dark spot in costal area, costal margin at apex testaceous, and the apical margin creamy white, before the latter a transverse series of four small fuscous spots placed on the veins, a large fuscous spot at end of clavus; wings very pale fuliginous, with the veins fuscous; second joint of antennae robust, as long as head and thorax together. Long., excl. tegm., 5 mm; exp. tegm. 22 mm (Distant 1907).

Diagnosis References

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

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