Ziridava Walker, [1863] 1862

Schmidt, Olga & Tautel, Claude, 2022, Notes on the Indo-Australian genus Ziridava Walker (Lepidoptera: Geometridae Larentiinae), with description of two new species, Zootaxa 5100 (1), pp. 105-118 : 106

Ziridava Walker, [1863] 1862

Type species: Ziridava xylinaria Walker, [1863] .

Prorocorys Warren, 1899 (syn.) ( Holloway 1997).

Holloway (1982, 1997) reviewed the species of the genus Ziridava Walker and listed the following diagnostic characters:

the general appearance is similar to that of Horisme Hübner ([1825]) species but with distinctive darker shading obliquely postmedially or costally on the forewing;

the male antennae are filiform, densely scaled and invested with very short cilia: they are slightly swollen over the central part;

the male genitalia have the uncus reduced to a short trident, the labides are well developed and the valves are long, strap-like, with the costa broadened over a short basal section, the saccus is rather broad, square, the aedeagus vesica is globular with one or two patches or rows of narrow, short cornuti;

the female genitalia have short, rather square ovipositor lobes, a short ductus and an ovate bursa from which the ductus seminalis arises from a small lateral lobe basally, the signum is a scobinate patch ( Holloway 1997).