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

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

female genitalia are large, in the case of specimens of equal size those of recens are twice to thrice bigger than those of repentina. The female genitalia of E. repentina agrees with the figure published as E. recens DIETZE by INOUE (Figs. 12-13). All these again agree with the photographs given in DE LAEVER'S (1960) work in spite of the fact of their small size and questionable quality. Accordingly, INOUE'S figures cannot represent Eupithecia recens DIETZE. On the basis of the photographs of the imago and the male and female genitalia, we are dealing with Japanese specimens of E. repentina VOJNITS et DE LAEVER. It can therefore be stated that 1. we have no datum on the basis of INOUEU'S work (1980) on the occurrence of Eupithecia recens DIETZE in Japan ; 2. The male and female genitalia of E. recens DIETZE were correctly illustrated by DE LAEVER (1960) and VOJNITS et DE LAEVER (1978); more detailed figures of the genitalia are submitted in the present paper; 3. Eupithecia repentina VOJNITS et DE LAEVER is a bona species, new for the fauna of Japan, because the data given for "recens" by INOUE refer to the above species. New, detailed figures are hereby given.