Eupithecia accurata

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Eupithecia accurata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Eupithecia
Species:
E. accurata
Binomial name
Eupithecia accurata
Staudinger, 1892 [1]
Synonyms
  • Eupithecia subscalptataSchütze, 1961 [2]

Eupithecia accurata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, northern Iran and Kazakhstan. [3]

Adult specimens have light grey fore- and hindwings with checked fringes on both pairs of wings. The forewings have a dark and slanted central band marked with two light transverse lines and a sprinkling of light scales. The basal portion of the wing has some inconspicuous sprinkling of darker scales, followed by a blackish, partially faded extra-basal line. The wing's outer area is brownish. The hindwings have a darkened inner margin and a narrow, faded, brownish transverse patch near the lower half of the outer margin. [4]

The shape of the forewings was described by Otto Staudinger as similar to those of E. separata or E. scalptata except more pointed at the anterior corner, and much longer and narrower than those of E. subpulchrata , three species he noted resembled E. accurata. [4] He gave the wingspan of the species as 22–24 mm. [4] Eduard Schütze gave [lower-alpha 1] a slightly larger wingspan of 25 mm. [5]

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References

  1. In his 1961 description of E. subscalptata, now considered a junior synonym of E. accurata
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Eupithecia accurata Staudinger 1892". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016.
  2. Mironov, V. & U. Ratzel, 2012: New species of the genus Eupithecia Curtis (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentii-nae) from Iran. Zootaxa3580: 56-68. Abstract:
  3. Mironov, V. G.; Knyazev, S.A.; Gorbunov, P. Yu. (November 2021). "Species of Geometrid Moths of the Tribe Eupitheciini (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) New to the Fauna of Kazakhstan". Entomological Review. 101 (8): 1173–1177. doi:10.1134/S0013873821080121. S2CID   247178391 . Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 Staudinger, Otto (1892). "Neue Arten und Varietäten von paläarktischen Geometriden". Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift Iris (in German). 5: 251–253. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  5. Schütze, Eduard (1961). "Weitere Eupithecien aus Iran und Arabien (Lep. Geom.) Eupithecien-Studien XVII". Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft (in German). Münchner Entomologische Gesellschaft. 51: 65–66. Retrieved 21 January 2023.