Cidaria fulvata, the barred yellow, is a moth of the family Geometridae.

The species is widespread in the Palearctic, in the west from Spain and France to the British Isles, in the east to the Central Asian mountains, to the Amur and to Kamchatka, in the south of Italy via the Balkan countries, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, the Caspian region as far as the Pamir Mountains and northern India as well as in the north as far as Fennoscandia.

The habitats include rocky slopes, heaths and wasteland as well as gardens and parks.

The larva is rather long and slender with 2 well developed anal points, bluer green dorsally, yellower green ventrally, with yellow lateral line.

The pupa spun by a few threads among leaves is bright yellow green, wings more grass-green.