Eupithecia illaborata Dietze, 1904

Mironov, Vladimir & Galsworthy, Anthony, 2014, A survey of Eupithecia Curtis, 1825 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) in Mongolia with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 3774 (2), pp. 101-130 : 102-103

* Eupithecia illaborata Dietze, 1904

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Eup[ithecia] illaborata Dietze, 1904 , Deutsche Entomologische Zeitung, Iris [1903] 16 (2): 357, pl. 3, fig. 34. Syntypes 4♂, 4♀ (coll. K. Dietze and R. Püngeler in MNHU; examined), [ China]: Aksu, Chines. West Turkestan; Korla.

This small species from the “ haworthiata ” group was known from south eastern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan (Tien- Shan Mts.) and the northern provinces of China (Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia). E. illaborata is a new representative of the genus for the Mongolian fauna. The single Mongolian specimen has a rusty ochreous tinge to the body and wings, and dark brown costal margins on the fore wings.

Material examined. 1♀, W. Mongolia, Khovd aimag, Uench-Gol Valley, 50 km N of Uench vill., 1500 m, 6.vii.2007, V.V. Anikin leg., Mironov slide no. 883♀ ( ZISP).

Figures

FIGURES 9 – 16. Eupithecia adults (scale bar = 10 mm). 9. E. munguata Mironov & Galsworthy, sp. n. (holotype); 10. E. impolita Vojnits, 1980 (Mongolia); 11. E. kuldschaensis Staudinger, 1892 (Mongolia); 12. E. rubeni Viidalepp, 1976 (Russia, S. Primorje); 13. E. vicariata Dietze, 1904 (Mongolia); 14. E. illaborata Dietze, 1904 (Mongolia); 15 E. bastelbergeri Dietze, 1910 (Mongolia); 16. E. relaxata Dietze, 1904 (China, Heilongjiang).