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 bastelbergeri
Dietze, 1910
(
Fig. 15
)
Eup[ithecia]
bastelbergeri
Dietze, 1910
,
Biologie der Eupithecien
1
: pl. 73, fig. 360.
Syntypes
2♀ (coll. K. Dietze in MNHU; examined), Turkestan [
Kyrgyzstan
]: Naryn; Karagai-tau.
E[upithecia]
bastelbergeri
korvaci
Prout, 1938,
in
Seitz,
The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
4
(Suppl.): 188.
Syntypes
3♀ (BMNH; examined), [
Turkey
]: Kurdistan, Malatya.
A generally small species (but of variable size) in the “
haworthiata
” group. Very small specimens from Kurdistan (
Turkey
) were described as subsp.
korvaci
Prout, 1938, but similar specimens have also been collected in
Turkmenistan
. In our opinion,
korvaci
is not a good subspecies but simply a small form, since normal-sized specimens are also found in
Turkmenistan
along with very small specimens.
E. bastelbergeri
flies from mid-June to early August, and perhaps early September. Larvae were found on
Clematis orientalis
L. (
Ranunculaceae
) in October (
Tajikistan
:
Degtjareva, 1973
). It is likely that eggs are laid in the seed-balls of this foodplant because the females have elongate and heavily sclerotized papillae anales. This species occurs in
Turkey
, Caucasus (Daghestan),
Turkmenistan
(Kopet-Dagh Mts.),
Uzbekistan
, S.
Kazakhstan
,
Kyrgyzstan
and
Tajikistan
. A new species for the fauna of
Mongolia
. The male and female genitalia of this species were first described and illustrated in Viidalepp (1988).
Material examined.
1♂
, W.
Mongolia
, Khovd aimag, Uenchin-Gol Valley,
50 km
N of Uench vill.,
1500 m
,
6.vii.2007
, V.V. Anikin leg., Mironov slide no.
884♂
(
ZISP
).