Cidaria

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Cidaria
Cidaria fulvata01.jpg
Cidaria fulvata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Family:
Geometridae
Subfamily:
Tribe:
Genus:
Cidaria

Cidaria is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It was erected by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1825.

Description[]

Palpi clothed with hair and reaching beyond the slight frontal tuft. Antennae of male typically minutely serrated and fasciculated. Hind tibia with two pairs of spurs. Forewings with vein 3 from near angle of cell and vein 5 from above middle of discocellulars. Vein 6 on or from just above upper angle. Vein 10 anastomosing (fusing) with vein 11 and then with veins 8 and 9 to form the double areole. Hindwings with vein 3 from close to angle of cell. The discocellulars oblique and vein 5 from or from above their middle. Veins 6 and 7 stalked.[1]

Species[]

  • Prout, 1938
  • Bang-Haas, 1927
  • Hampson, 1902
  • Staudinger, 1892
  • Cidaria fulvata (Forster, 1771) – barred yellow
  • Choi, 1997
  • Felder, 1875
  • Leech, 1897
  • Staudinger, 1895

References[]

  1. ^ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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