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;

Ziridava xylinaria, the indistinct carpet, is a moth in the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Hong Kong and on Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java and possibly the Philippines and Sulawesi.[2][3]

Description

The wingspan is about 28 mm in the male and 34 mm in the female. Body very pale brown with rufous, fuscous, and silvery scaly irrorations (speckles). Forewings 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. Hindwings 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

Ziridava xylinaria baliensis Prout, 1958
Ziridava xylinaria florensis Prout, 1958
Ziridava xylinaria kanshireiensis Prout, 1958
Ziridava xylinaria khasiensis Prout, 1958
Ziridava xylinaria rubridisca Hampson, 1891
Ziridava xylinaria subaequata Prout, 1929

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References

Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Ziridava xylinaria Walker 1863". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on 3 August 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (15 September 2013). "Ziridava xylinaria Walker, 1863 Indistinct Carpet". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
"Ziridava xylinaria Walker". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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[1] Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Ziridava xylinaria Walker 1863". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on 3 August 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2018.

[2] Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (15 September 2013). "Ziridava xylinaria Walker, 1863 Indistinct Carpet". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 2 August 2018.

[3] "Ziridava xylinaria Walker". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 29 September 2016.

[4] Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.