New species and checklist of Turkish Eupithecia Curtis (Geometridae: Larentiinae) Author Mironov, Vladimir text Zootaxa 2013 3717 1 39 52 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3717.1.3 f09725f1-f3b5-4173-be8b-197518f04f4f 1175-5326 284951 A31FFCE4-FA99-4676-9D01-158EE4B129EA Eupithecia despectaria Lederer, 1853 ( Fig. 6 ) [ Eupithecia ] despectaria Lederer, 1853 , Verh. zool.-bot. Ver. Wien 3 (Abh.): 382, taf. 6, fig. 7. Holotype ♂ (coll. O. Staudinger in MNHU; examined), [ Kazakhstan ]: Siberia, [Altai, Ust-Kamenogorsk]. Material examined. ♂, Altai, Kinderm., Ustkam., Despectaria Sib. or. Led., Origin., Vojnits slide no. 19032♂ ( holotype , coll. O. Staudinger in MNHU). 2♀, NE– Türkei , Provinz Erzurum, Karadeniz Daglari, ca. 1000 m , Tal des Coruh, ca. 20 km E Ispir, 22.iv.2001 , leg. J. Gelbrecht, S. Beshkov & Almet Kazanci, Mironov slide no. 887♀ (coll. J. Gelbrecht). Notes. This little known and rare Asian species was described on the basis of a single male from Siberia without any mention of locality. The holotype us marked with an original label “Ustkam.” or Ust-Kamenogorsk. This Russian town goes back to 1720 and is now located in the territory of eastern Kazakhstan . E. despectaria has been recorded also from Mongolia , Russia (Altai Mts.), NW China (Kuldja), Kirghizstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan . It has not been previously recorded from Asia Minor . The two known Turkish specimens have less elongated wings than the holotype . The male and female genitalia are very characteristic in this species. The genitalia of E. despectaria were briefly described and the bursa copulatrix was illustrated in Viidalepp (1988).