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

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

Genitalia, çf '• Uncus long, robust. Valvae very long, dorsum straight, vcntrum with a projection. Apex truncate. Saccus wide. Aedoeagus short, thick, cylindrical, with an arcuate, falciform and several irregularly shaped chitinous formations. Base of sternite VTII. weakly excised, terminally heavily sclerotized (Fig. 9); — 9 : unknown. Biology — First stages and foodplant unknown. The holotype was collected in September. Distribution — North India. Locus typicus: Kumaon, Bhim valley. Specific differences — Externally the new species is relegable to the Eupithecia selinata group, but the male genitalia differs considerably from those of its near allies. Holotype çf : "Nord-Indien Kumaon Bhimtal (Noinital), 1450 m, 23.9.1972, Lichtfang leg. S. Richter" "Gen. prep. No. 12.126 çf Dr. A. Vojnits Budapest TTM". — Holotype deposited in the Landessammlungen für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe. Slide: No. 12.126 (rf), gen. prep. A. Vojnits. II. THE OCCURRENCE OF EUPITHECIA RECENS DIETZE AND E. REPENTINA VOJNITS ET DE LAEVER IN JAPAN Eupithecia recens DIETZE, 1903, D. ent. Z. Iris, 16:349-351. pi. 3:26. Eupithecia repentina VOJNITS, DE LAEVER 1978, Acta Zool. Hung., 24: 237-238, figs. 15, 17. INOUE (1980) discussed in detail original description of Eupithecia recens DIETZE as well as that given by PROUT. On the basis of the investigated population in Japan he also characterized the configuration of the genitalia and also published their photographs. In his interpretation of the species he stated that our recens data from China (VOJNITS et DE LAEVER 1978) are based on erroneous identifications, further that Eupithecia repentina VOJNITS et DE LAEVER, described in the same paper, is a junior synonym of recens DIETZE. The fact that we have examined type-specimens in our study must have escaped INOUE'S attention. We have namely stated as follows: "We have studied the type-specimen deposited in the Humboldt Museum, Berlin («Eupithecia recens Dietze çf Sidemi Type» «Geom: 1950-593 A Humboldt Mus. u. Univ. Berlin»), as well as our own slides". Despite the fact that some details may vary, both the male and the female genitalia are highly characteristic. I should like to call attention again to the spiniform ventral appendage on the valva of the male genitalia, a process considerably more robust than that of E. repentina VOJNITS et DE LAEVER or that of the species which INOUE presents as E. recens DIETZE. The aedoeagi and especially sternites VIII are also highly different (Figs. 10-11). The