Ziridava xylinaria Walker 1863
- Dataset
- Notes on the Indo-Australian genus Ziridava Walker (Lepidoptera: Geometridae Larentiinae), with description of two new species
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Geometridae
- genus
- Ziridava
- species
- Ziridava xylinaria
description
Note. Scoble (1999) treated the three subspecies of xylinaria as synonyms. The Ziridava xylinaria - group needs a further revision as not all the type specimens have been examined so far. Specimens formerly treated as Ziridava xylinaria from New Caledonia (see Holloway 1979) may possibly belong to another species.
discussion
Holloway (1979) assigned the specimens from New Caledonia to Ziridava xylinaria, with a note that the aedeagus vesica and the apex of the New Caledonian male were more thickly scobinate than in typical xylinaria from Sarawak. Chloroclystis leptomita Turner, 1907. Syntypes male, female, Australia, Queensland (north), Kuranda (ANIC) (adults resemble Z. xylinaria, genitalia not examined). Ziridava xylinaria subaequata Prout, 1929. Holotype female, Indonesia, Seram (central), Maluku, Manusela (slide Geom: 11261 HT-JDH, examined) (NHM). Ziridava xylinaria subrubida Warren, 1897. Holotype male, Indonesia, Sulawesi (south) (slide Geom: 11254 HT- JDH, examined) (NHM). Geographical range. Borneo: Sarawak (type locality), Sumatra, Sulawesi (ssp. subrubida), Moluccas (ssp. subaequata), New Guinea, Queensland (ssp. leptomita); Vanuatu and New Caledonia (lowland to upper montane) (see Holloway 1982, 1997).
materials_examined
Syntype (s) female (s), Malaysia, Borneo, Sarawak (Oxford University Museum of Natural History) (not examined). Morphological characters were discussed by Holloway (1982, 1997). The following taxa are included: Ziridava xylinaria subrubida Warren, 1897, Chloroclystis leptomita Turner, 1907, and Ziridava xylinaria subaequata Prout, 1929 (see Holloway 1997).
Name
- Homonyms
- Ziridava xylinaria Walker 1863