''Cidaria'' is a genus of

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

s 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.

Species

* '' Cidaria antauges'' Prout, 1938 * '' Cidaria basharica'' Bang-Haas, 1927 * '' Cidaria deletaria'' Hampson, 1902 * '' Cidaria distinctata'' Staudinger, 1892 * '' Cidaria fulvata'' (Forster, 1771) – barred yellow * '' Cidaria luteata'' Choi, 1997 * '' Cidaria nugata'' Felder, 1875 * '' Cidaria ochracearia'' Leech, 1897 * '' Cidaria ochreata'' Staudinger, 1895

References

* * Cidariini {{Cidariini-stub