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 pimpinellata
(Hübner, [1813])
Geometra pimpinellata
Hübner
, [1813],
Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge
5
Geometrae (2), taf. 86, figs. 443, 444.
Syntype
(s) lost, [Europe].
Eupithecia altaicata
Guenée
, [1858],
in
Boisduval & Guenée,
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptéres.
10
(2), 330.
Syntypes
5♂
, 2♀ (BMNH; coll. O. Staudinger and K. Dietze in MNHU, examined), [
Russia
]: Altai, Ustk(amenogorsk) (treated as var. of
E. pimpinellata
in
Staudinger & Rebel, 1901
).
Eup[ithecia]
vellicata
Dietze, 1908
,
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitung
,
Iris
(1908)
21
(2/3): 173;
ibidem
(1906),
19
(3), taf. 2, fig. 16.
Syntypes
2♀ (coll. K. Dietze and R. Püngeler in MNHU, examined), [
China
]: Urumtschi (treated as subsp. of
E. pimpinellata
Hübner
, [1813] in Mironov, 1990).
[
Eupithecia
]
pimpinellata
f.
assimilis
Dietze, 1913
,
Biologie der Eupithecien
2
: 118;
ibidem
(1910),
1
, taf. 76, figs 554–556; taf. 85, fig. 949.
Syntypes
7♂
, 2♀ (coll. K. Dietze in MNHU, examined), [
China
]: [Xinjiang], Juldus [Yining] region; Ili region.
Also a widespread Palaearctic species. It was repeatedly described from areas of
Russia
and
China
bordering with
Mongolia
as
E. altaicata
Guenée
,
E. vellicata
Dietze
, and
E. pimpinellata
f.
assimilis
Dietze. It was recorded for the fauna of
Mongolia
by
Viidalepp (1975)
and
Vojnits (1975)
almost simultaneously.
Mongolia
(aimags): Bulgan, Tuv.