Eupithecia despectaria Lederer, 1853

Mironov, Vladimir, 2013, New species and checklist of Turkish Eupithecia Curtis (Geometridae: Larentiinae), Zootaxa 3717 (1), pp. 39-52 : 48

Eupithecia despectaria Lederer, 1853

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[ Eupithecia ] despectaria Lederer, 1853 , Verh. zool.-bot. Ver. Wien 3 (Abh.): 382, taf. 6, fig. 7. Holotype ♂ (coll. O. Staudinger in MNHU; examined), [ Kazakhstan]: Siberia, [Altai, Ust-Kamenogorsk].

Material examined. ♂, Altai, Kinderm., Ustkam., Despectaria Sib. or. Led., Origin., Vojnits slide no. 19032♂ (holotype, coll. O. Staudinger in MNHU). 2♀, NE– Türkei, Provinz Erzurum, Karadeniz Daglari, ca. 1000 m, Tal des Coruh, ca. 20 km E Ispir, 22.iv.2001, leg. J. Gelbrecht, S. Beshkov & Almet Kazanci, Mironov slide no. 887♀ (coll. J. Gelbrecht).

Notes. This little known and rare Asian species was described on the basis of a single male from Siberia without any mention of locality. The holotype us marked with an original label “Ustkam.” or Ust-Kamenogorsk. This Russian town goes back to 1720 and is now located in the territory of eastern Kazakhstan. E. despectaria has been recorded also from Mongolia, Russia (Altai Mts.), NW China (Kuldja), Kirghizstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It has not been previously recorded from Asia Minor. The two known Turkish specimens have less elongated wings than the holotype. The male and female genitalia are very characteristic in this species. The genitalia of E. despectaria were briefly described and the bursa copulatrix was illustrated in Viidalepp (1988).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Eupithecia species (scale bar = 10 mm). 1 — E. gelbrechti sp. n. (holotype); 2 — E. niveata sp. n. (holotype); 3 — E. armeniaca Wardikjan, 1970 (Turkey); 4 — E. armeniaca Wardikjan, 1970 (Azerbaijan); 5 — E. mima Mironov, 1989 (Turkey); 6 — E. despectaria Lederer, 1853 (Turkey); 7 — E. dubiosa Dietze, 1910 (Turkey, first generation); 8 — E. dubiosa Dietze, 1910 (Turkey, second generation).