Girida rigida

Girida rigida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Geometridae
Genus:Girida
Species: G. rigida
Binomial name
Girida rigida
(Swinhoe, 1892)[1]
Synonyms
  • Eupithecia rigida Swinhoe, 1892

Girida rigida is a moth in the family Geometridae. 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]

The wings are dark grey with a fine double white postmedial line on each wing.[4]

References

  1. Taxapad
  2. Mironov, V.G. ; A.C. Galsworthy & K. Yazaki, 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. Abstract:
  3. Mironov, V.G. & A.C. Galsworthy, 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. Abstract: .
  4. The Moths of Borneo


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