A survey of Eupithecia Curtis, 1825 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) in Mongolia with descriptions of two new species
Author
Mironov, Vladimir
Author
Galsworthy, Anthony
text
Zootaxa
2014
3774
2
101
130
journal article
46297
10.11646/zootaxa.3774.2.1
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Eupithecia kuldschaensis
Staudinger, 1892
(
Fig 11
)
Eupithecia kuldschaensis
Staudinger, 1892
,
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitung
,
Iris
5
(1): 255.
Syntypes
2♀ (coll. O. Staudinger in MNHU; ZISP, examined), [
China
]: Kuldja.
Eupithecia aporia
Vojnits, 1975
,
Acta zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
21
(3–4): 452, fig. 4.
Holotype
♂ (TTM, examined),
Mongolia
: Chovd aimak,
10 km
SSW of Somon Bulgan
1200 m
(synonymised in
Mironov & Galsworthy, 2013
).
A little known and rare species, hitherto recorded only from Kuldja in the Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang. The female genitalia of the
syntype
were described and illustrated by de
Laever (1956)
. The Mongolian
E. aporia
Vojnits
, described on the basis of a very worn male, is a junior synonym of
E. kuldschaensis
Staudinger.
Mongolia
(aimags): Govi-Altai, Khovd.