Girida rigida
Girida rigida is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892.[1] It is found from the Ryukyu Islands through tropical and subtropical south-east Asia to New Caledonia.[2] Records for eastern Africa refer to Girida sporadica, which was promoted to species rank in 2012.[3]
| Girida rigida | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Girida |
| Species: | G. rigida |
| Binomial name | |
| Girida rigida (C. Swinhoe, 1892) | |
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The wings are dark grey with a fine double white postmedial line on each wing.[4]
References
- Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Eupithecia rigida Swinhoe 1892". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016.
- Mironov, V. G.; Galsworthy, A. C. & Yazaki, K. (2009). "A survey of the genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) in mainland South East Asia: Part II". Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan. 60 (3): 167-188.
- Mironov, V. G. & Galsworthy, A. C. (2012). "A generic level review of Eupithecia Curtis and some closely related genera based on the Palaearctic, Nearctic and Oriental fauna (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae)". Zootaxa. 3587: 46-64.
- Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Eupithecia rigida Swinhoe". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
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