SYSTEMATICS OF THE GENUS CIDARIA TREITSCHKE (LEPIDOPTERA, GEOMETRIDAE, LARENTIINAE)

Authors
Citation
Sw. Choi, SYSTEMATICS OF THE GENUS CIDARIA TREITSCHKE (LEPIDOPTERA, GEOMETRIDAE, LARENTIINAE), Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 122(4), 1998, pp. 555-580
Citations number
58
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
ISSN journal
0024-4082
Volume
122
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
555 - 580
Database
ISI
SICI code
0024-4082(1998)122:4<555:SOTGCT>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
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.