Eupithecia dubiosa Dietze, 1910

Mironov, Vladimir, 2013, New species and checklist of Turkish Eupithecia Curtis (Geometridae: Larentiinae), Zootaxa 3717 (1), pp. 39-52 : 47

Eupithecia dubiosa Dietze, 1910

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Eupithecia dodoneata f. dubiosa Dietze, 1910 , Biologie der Eupithecien 1, pl. 78, figs 769, 770; ibidem (1913), 2: 141. Lectotype ♀ (coll. K. Dietze in MNHU), Syria [ Lebanon]: Beirut [Raised to species rank by Hausmann, 1995].

Material examined. 1♂, [ Turkey], Prov. Antalya, 5 km NW Termessos, 19.iii. (19)99, ca. 450 m, leg. Bernd Schacht, Mironov slide no. 903♂ (coll. J. Gelbrecht); 1♀, Turkey, Prov. Malatya, 1000 m, Yeşilyurt, Gündüz Bey, 38˚18’E, 38˚15’N, 23.ix.1989, leg. Z. Varga & G. Ronkay, Mironov slide no. 892♀ (TTM).

Notes. This species is known from Lebanon and Cyprus. It has not hitherto been recorded from Turkey. E. dubiosa belongs to the interruptofasciata species-group, and is externally rather similar to E. abbreviata Stephens, 1831 and E. dodoneata Guenée, 1858 . It appears have two generations one in spring and the other in autumn. I have found in the collection of Budapest Museum one small female specimen with an indistinct pattern on all wings, which was captured in the end of September. The genitalia of this specimen are distinct from those of European representatives of the interruptofasciata group, and are similar to genitalia first illustrated and described for E. dubiosa by Hausmann (1995).

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).