Eupithecia mima Mironov, 1989

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Eupithecia mima Mironov, 1989, Vestnik Zoologii 1989 (3): 14, figs 3a–d. Holotype ♀ (ZISP; examined), Mongolia: Bayan- Khongor aimak, 140 km S of Shine-Dzhinsta, Ekhin-Gol Oasis.

Material examined. ♀, Mongolia, Bayan-Khongor aimak, 140 km S of Shine-Dzhinsta, Ekhin-Gol Oasis, 23.vi.1981, leg. A. Lvovsky, Galsworthy & Mironov slide no. 540♀ (holotype, ZISP); 4♂, 14♀, the same locality, 26.vi.–16.viii.1981, leg. A. Lvovsky (paratypes, ZISP); 1♂, 1♀, Uzbekskaya SSR [Uzbekistan], Karakalpakskaya ASSR, 40 km N of Nukus, 25.vi.1984, leg. I. Sokolov (paratypes, ZISP); 1♂, 1♀, Kazakhskaya SSR [Kazakhstan], southern coast of Balkhash Lake, vill. Karaoj, 28.viii.1986, leg. V. Mironov (paratypes, ZISP). 1♂, 1♀, O– Türkei, Elazig, Euphrat bei Kale, 700 m, 28.vi.1979, leg. Groß; ex coll. Dr. F. J. Groß, Königsdorf, in Ent. Mus. Ulf Eitschberger, Marktleuthen 1986, Mironov slides nos 890♂, 889♀ (ZSM).

Notes. This very small species from the ultimaria group is known from Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan. It is a new species for the fauna of Turkey. The male and female genitalia of E. mima are very similar to those of E. minusculata Alphéraky, 1882, but the corpus bursae in the female has a row of spines situated opposite the spiniferous area between base of ductus seminalis and colliculum.