Cyclidia rectificata

Cyclidia rectificata is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1862. It is found in India[1] and Myanmar.

Cyclidia rectificata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Drepanidae
Genus:
Cyclidia
Species:
C. rectificata
Binomial name
Cyclidia rectificata
(Walker, 1862)
Synonyms
  • Nelcynda rectificata Walker, 1862
  • Cyclidia rectificata f. divisa Bryk, 1943
  • Cyclidia mauricolaria Walker, 1862
  • Cyclidia patulata Walker, 1866

Adults are a very pale fawn colour, the wings with submarginal blackish spots. These are paler and smaller on the underside, where the four wings are nearly alike in colour and in markings. The forewings have a white discal spot, and with four oblique slightly undulating and denticulated white lines. The space about the lines is rather darker than the wings elsewhere. The hindwings are whitish, with incomplete fawn-coloured bands, which correspond to the spaces between the lines of the forewings.[2]

Subspecies
  • Cyclidia rectificata rectificata (India, China)
  • Cyclidia rectificata malaisei Bryk, 1943 (Burma)

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cyclidia rectificata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  2. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum


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