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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1175-5326
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Eupithecia simpliciata
(Haworth, 1809)
Phalaena simpliciata
Haworth, 1809
,
Lepidoptera Brittanica
(
2
): 359.
Syntype
(s), [
United Kingdom
].
Geometra subnotata
Hübner, 1813
,
Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge
5
Geometrae (
2
), pl. 89, fig. 458.
Syntype
(s) lost. [Europe] (synonymised as
E. subnotataria
[sic] in Herrich-Schäffer, [1848]).
Eupithecia subnotata
f.
collustrata
Dietze, 1910
,
Biologie der Eupithecien
1
, pl. 85, fig. 947;
ibidem
(1913),
2
: 107.
Syntypes
2♂
, 3♀ (coll. K. Dietze in MNHU; examined), [
Kyrgyzstan
]: Karagai-tau; Naryn; [
China
]: Altyn-dagh.
This is a readily recognized species, easily distinguished from other
Eupithecia
. It is usually common in Europe (from
Ireland
and
Spain
to southern Urals),
Asia Minor
, Caucasus, Transcaucasus, western Siberia,
Kazakhstan
,
Turkmenistan
,
Uzbekistan
,
Tajikistan
,
Kyrgyzstan
and North western
China
(Xinjiang). Not hitherto recorded from
Mongolia
.
Material examined.
1♀, W.
Mongolia
, Khovd aimag, Dzhungarian Gobi desert,
10 km
E of Bulgan somon,
1050 m
,
7.vii.2007
, V.V. Anikin leg. (
ZISP
).