Sw. Choi, SYSTEMATICS OF THE GENUS CIDARIA TREITSCHKE (LEPIDOPTERA, GEOMETRIDAE, LARENTIINAE), Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 122(4), 1998, pp. 555-580
The genus Cidaria Treitschke is revised. Eight species of the genus wh
ich occur widely in the Palaearctic and northern India, are recognized
, of which one, Cidaria luteata sp. nov., is described as new while tw
o subspecies of C. fulvata (Forster) are elevated to species, C. mugat
a Felder stat, rev., and C. distinctata Staudinger stat, nov. C. ochri
pennis Prout is proposed as a junior synonym of C. ochreata Staudinger
. C. deletaria Hampson is excluded from the genus. All species of Cida
ria and their genitalia are described and illustrated. The cladistic a
nalysis of these eight species of Cidaria is carried our using two dat
a matrices, the first comprising morphological characters alone and th
e second morphological and distributional characters. The most parsimo
nious cladogram of Cidaria is selected, and its monophyly defined. The
character analysis shows that some distribution characters contribute
to resolving the ingroup node. The choice of multiple trees is discus
sed.