Eupithecia utae

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Eupithecia utae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Eupithecia
Species:
E. utae
Binomial name
Eupithecia utae
Ratzel, 2011 [1]

Eupithecia utae is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Bhutan. [2]

Moth Group of mostly-nocturnal insects in the order Lepidoptera

Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera. Most lepidopterans are moths, and there are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species.

Bhutan Landlocked kingdom in Eastern Himalayas

Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it is bordered by the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China in the north, the Sikkim state of India and the Chumbi Valley of Tibet in the west, the Arunachal Pradesh state of India in the east, and the states of Assam and West Bengal in the south. Bhutan is geopolitically in South Asia and is the region's second least populous nation after the Maldives. Thimphu is its capital and largest city, while Phuntsholing is its financial center.

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<i>Eupithecia subumbrata</i> species of insect

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<i>Eupithecia breviculata</i> species of insect

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<i>Eupithecia distinctaria</i> species of insect

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<i>Eupithecia silenicolata</i> species of insect

Eupithecia silenicolata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found from southern Europe and Morocco to western Asia, Iran and Pakistan. In the north, the range extends to southern Switzerland, Austria and northern Italy.

Eupithecia undata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Christian Friedrich Freyer in 1840. The North American Moth Photographers Group lists it as a synonym of Eupithecia lafontaineata. It is found in the Pyrenees, Alps, the Massif Central, the Tatra mountains, on the Balkan Peninsula and in Romania. It is also found in North America, where it has been recorded from Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Nevada and Oregon.

<i>Eupithecia ericeata</i> species of insect

Eupithecia ericeata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Jules Pierre Rambur in 1833. It is found in most of southern Europe and the Near East.

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Eupithecia pinkeri is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Anatolia and Transcaucasia.

Eupithecia leamariae is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Bhutan.

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References

  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki (1997–2012). "Eupithecia Curtis 1825". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on August 11, 2018.[ not in citation given ]
  2. Ratzel, U., 2011: News on Eupithecia from Bhutan (Himalaya), with description of three new species: Eupithecia leamariae sp. nov., Eupithecia utae sp. nov. and Eupithecia falkenbergi sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Larentiinae). Entomologische Zeitschrift121 (4): 173-180.