Eupithecia graciliata Dietze, 1906

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 : 115

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3774.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6131761
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scientific name	Eupithecia graciliata Dietze, 1906
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This small, light yellowish or yellowish grey species, which is rather similar externally to the preceding species, was described from the south of the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan near the border with Afghanistan. It is distributed in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and north-western Kazakhstan and was recorded for the fauna of Mongolia by Viidalepp (1975) on the basis of a single male. The male genitalia were described and illustrated in Schütze (1961) and Viidalepp (1975).

Material examined. 1♂, Mongolia, South Gobi aimak, 60 km E of Talyn-Bil’gekh-Bulak spring, 17– 19.viii. (1)969, (leg.) Gurjeva, Viidalepp’s slide no. K-224, [= ZISP slide no. 11890♂] ( ZISP); 1♂, same data, but (leg.) M. Kozlov ( ZISP). Mongolia: Umnugovi aimag.