Tribe Zoraidini Muir, 1913

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Regional Maps

• Zoraida subgroup 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 [31].

  Type genus:

   Zoraida Kirkaldy, 1900.
• Zoraidinae Muir, 1913.

Introduction

Muir (1913) noted "It is among the Zoraida section that the most conspicuous forms of the family are to be found, and from whence the forms generally chosen to illustrate the family are taken." This tribe includes the largest derbids with elongate forewings held above the body at about 45º. This group also includes some pest species, including Proutista moesta (Westwood) which transmits a phytoplasma of palms in the Oriental region.

Diagnosis

The Zoraida subgroup also has very small wings with large anal areas, devoted to sound production, but never so greatly reduced as in the Sikiana section (Muir 1913).

Stridulatory plate with convex external margin; clavus open; margins of eyes not close to epistomal suture (Emeljanov 1996).

ID Keys

Emeljanov 1996: 75–76

Diagnosis References

Emeljanov, A.F. 1996. On the system and phylogeny of the Family Derbidae (Homoptera, Cicadina). Entomological Review (English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie) 75(2): 70–100 [75–76]

General References

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 [31]

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