Ziridava xylinaria Walker, 1862 is a animal in the Geometridae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Ziridava xylinaria Walker, 1862

Ziridava xylinaria Walker, 1862

Ziridava xylinaria is a moth species with distinct patterned markings and differing wingspans between males and females.

Family
Genus
Ziridava
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Ziridava xylinaria Walker, 1862

Ziridava xylinaria Walker, 1862 has a wingspan of approximately 28 mm in males, and 34 mm in females. Its body is very pale brown, marked with rufous, fuscous, and silvery scaly speckles. On the forewings, four lines run between the base and the middle of the wing; these lines are very highly angled below the costa, dark close to the costa, then rufous and oblique extending to the inner margin. A large fuscous and rufous patch is located beyond the cell, bounded by the double postmedial line. The double postmedial line is angled beyond the cell, then curves inward to the inner margin, with an indistinct dentate line located beyond it. There is a rufous and fuscous patch on the wing margin below the apex, and an indistinct, almost straight, pale submarginal line. Hindwings have faint traces of numerous waved lines. A dark sub-basal band and an angled postmedial rufous line are both found beyond the cell; the postmedial rufous line contains dark marks from vein 4 to the inner margin.

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Taxonomy

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Lepidoptera › Geometridae › Ziridava

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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