Ziridava xylinaria

Indistinct Carpet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Ziridava
Species: Z. xylinaria
Binomial name
Ziridava xylinaria
Walker, 1863[1]
Synonyms
  • Chloroclystis xylinaria
  • Ziridava xylinaria subrubida Warren, 1897
  • Chloroclystis leptomita Turner, 1907
  • Ziridava xylinaria subaequata Prout, 1929

The Indistinct Carpet, (Ziridava xylinaria), is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Hong Kong and on Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java and possibly the Philippines and Sulawesi.[2][3]

Description

Wingspan is about 28mm in male and 34mm in female. Body very pale brown with rufous, fuscous and silvery scaly irrorations. Fore wings with four lines between the base and middle, very highly angled below costa, and dark, then rufous and oblique to inner margin. A large fuscous and rufous patch found beyond the cell bounded by the double postmedial line, which is angled beyond the cell, then incurved to inner margin, and with an indistinct dentate line beyond it. A rufous and fuscous patch on the margin below apex. There is an indistinct almost straight, pale submarginal line. Hind wings with traces of numerous waved lines. A sub-basal dark band and a postmedial rufous line angled found beyond cell. It comprised with dark marks inside it from vein 4 to inner margin.[4]

Subspecies

References

  1. ↑ "Home of Ichneumonoidea". Taxapad. Dicky Sick Ki Yu. 1997–2012. Retrieved 2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  2. ↑ "Indistinct Carpet". Butterfly House. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Ziridava xylinaria Walker". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  4. ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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