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Cidaria
Sign in to saveCidaria is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It was erected by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1825.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyGeometridae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 28
- With media
- 9
- Family
- Geometridae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, FMNH, USNM, NHMUK, NMV
- Recorded in
- Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Ecuador, Switzerland, Mexico, Austria, Australia
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Image
- Cidaria fulvata01.jpg
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- taxon name
- Cidaria
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Cidaria
- Commons category
- Cidaria
- has host
- Bougainvillea
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Encyclopedic overview
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Cidaria is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It was erected by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1825.
==Description== Palpi clothed 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 (fusing) with vein 11 and then with veins 8 and 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. Veins 6 and 7 stalked.
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