Notes on the Indo-Australian genus Ziridava Walker (Lepidoptera: Geometridae Larentiinae), with description of two new species
Author
Schmidt, Olga
SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstrasse 21, 81247, Munich, Germany
Author
Tautel, Claude
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 45 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-02-17
5100
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20606
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Ziridava xylinaria
Walker, [1863]
.
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
).
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:11261HT-JDH, examined) (NHM).
Ziridava xylinaria subrubida
Warren, 1897
.
Holotype
male,
Indonesia
,
Sulawesi
(south) (slide Geom:11254HT- 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
).
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.