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Cidaria

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subfamily
  
Larentiinae

Scientific name
  
Cidaria

Higher classification
  
Cidariini

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

Family
  
Geometridae

Tribe
  
Cidariini

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Cidaria fulvata, Butterflies and moths, Chloroclysta, Thera, Eulithis

Cidaria is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.

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Description

Palpi clothes 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 with vein 11 and then with veins 8,9 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. Vein 6 and 7 stalked.

Species

  • Cidaria antauges Prout, 1938
  • Cidaria basharica Bang-Haas, 1927
  • Cidaria deletaria Hampson, 1902
  • Cidaria distinctata Staudinger, 1892
  • Cidaria fulvata – barred yellow (Forster, 1771)
  • Cidaria luteata Choi, 1997
  • Cidaria nugata Felder, 1875
  • Cidaria ochracearia Leech, 1897
  • Cidaria ochreata Staudinger, 1895

    • References

    Cidaria Wikipedia
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