Ziridava xylinaria
| Indistinct carpet | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Ziridava |
| Species: | Z. xylinaria
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| Binomial name | |
| Ziridava xylinaria | |
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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[edit]
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 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[edit]
- 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
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "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.