Eupithecia amplexata Christoph, 1880

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 : 117

Eupithecia amplexata Christoph, 1880

Eupithecia amplexata Christoph, 1880 , Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des naturalistes de Moscou 55 (3): 119. Lectotype ♂ (nec ♀) (BMNH, examined), [ Russia]: Wladiwost(ok).

Eupithecia pryeriaria Leech, 1897 , Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 20: 67. Syntypes 3 ♂, 3 ♀ (BMNH, examined), Japan: Yokohama; Yesso (synonymised in Prout, 1939).

An East Asian species from the “ satyrata ” group, occurring from Mongolia and Transbaikalia in the west across the Chinese provinces of Gansu and Shanxi, Asian Russia (Priamurje, Primorje, Sakhalin Island) and Korea to the Kuril Islands and Magadan region in the north-east and the Japanese island of Honshu in the south-east. It is a rare species in the western part of its distribution area. Recorded for territory of Buryatia (Khentei Mts.) near the border with Mongolia by Staudinger (1892), and later for Mongolia by Vojnits (1977). Mongolia: Tuv aimag.