Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 73. (Budapest 1981)

Vojnits, A.: Data to the Eupithecia fauna of Asia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)

Discal spot large, robust, black, rod-shaped. Hind wing yellowish white, transverse stripes brown to greyish brown. Discal spot small, round. Underside of wings yellowish, pattern elements brown. Cilia medium elongated, yellowish brown, striated. Genitalia. 9

: Bursa copulatrix pyriform, heavily sclerotized, wall rugose, interior unevenly padded with robust spines. Antrum wide, caliciform, sclerotized. Sternite VIII quadratic. Anterior and posterior apophyses short and thick. Papillae anales elongated (Fig. 3). — çf : unknown. Biology — First stages and foodplant unknown. All known specimens have been collected in September. Presumably a bivoltine species. Distribution — Occurring in North India; locus typicus: Kumaon, Bhim valley, 1450 m. Specific differences — To some extent, the new species resembles Eupithecia indigata HBN., but it has considerably more elongated wings, the apex is more drawn out, the discal spot conspicuous and rod-shaped, the basic colour darker, the female genitalia are completely different. Holotype $ : "Nord-Indien Kumaon Bhimtal (Nainital), 1450 m 23.9.1973, Lichtfang leg. S. Richter" "Gen. prep. No. 12 124 9 Dr- A. Vojnits Budapest TTM". — Paratypes: with the same locality data, but between 6 and 21 September, 1973, 3 9 9- — Holotype deposited in the Landessammlungen für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe, paratypes in Karlsruhe and in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Slides : Nos. 12.121, 12.124, 12.125, 12.127 (9 9), gen. prep. A. Mészár and A. Vojnits. Figs. 2-4. Female genitalia of : 2 = Eupithecia comparanda sp. n., 3 = producta sp. n., 4 = E. ingrat asp. n.