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

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

III. THE PROBLEM OF EUPITHECIA INVISA BUTLER Eupithecia invisa BUTLER, 1878, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) 1:444; BUTLER, 1879, III. Het. Coll. Brit. Mus., 3:51, pl. 53:10; LEECH, 1897, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 20:68; PROUT, 1914, in SEITZ, Macrolepidoptera 4:284; INOUE, 1956, Check List Lep. Jap., 3:291; VOJNITS et DE LAEVER, 1978, Acta Zool. Hung., 24: 225-252 (231, fig. 10: erroneously "invisa DIETZE"). Tephroclystia invisa: MATSUMURA, 1905, Cat. Ins. Jap., 1:137. Eupithecia pimpinellata invisa: INOUE, 1977, Bull. Fac. domestic. Sei. Otsuma Woman's Univ., 13:277. ? Eupithecia virgaureata: PÜNGELER, 1898, D. ent. Z. Iris, 10: 371 ; WILEMAN, 1911, Trans, ent. Doc. Lon., 1911:330. Tephroclystia virgaureata: MATSUMURA, 1905, Cat. Ins. Jap., 1:136. Eupithecia virgaureata: PROUT, 1914 in SEITZ, Macrolepidoptera, 4:294. Eupithecia virgaureata invisa: INOUE, 1980, Revision of the Genus Eupithecia of Japan, Part2(Lepidoptera: Goemetridae), Bull. Fac. domestic. Sei., Otsuma Woman's Univ., 16:153-213, 193-198 Figs. 49: O, 50 :E, 54: B, C, 56: E, 59: E. INOUE (1980) has recently discussed the problem in detail. He brought forth the divers descriptions and stated that the Japanese populations of his study stand nearest to the species virgaureata DBLD., indeed that they represent its Far East subspecies. In my opinion

—with respect to the great variability of virgaureata in Europe, the minute difference in tinge (discernible only in part of the exemplars!) beside the agreement of the genitalia does not seem to justify the subspecific treatment of the Japanese specimens. INOUE himself characterized the investigated exemplars as follows: "Japanese populations are extremely variable in size, colour and maculation according to season of appearance, and usually northern and southern specimens show minor geographic variation. From the European nominate race it is easily separable by less brownish coloration of wings. The genitalia are identical between the nominate and Japanese races". INOUE mentions that though the genitalia (çf !) of the holotype of invisa BUTLER (BMNH Geom, Slide 3769) stand nearest to those of E. pimpinellata HÜBNER, FLETCHER detected that the actual specimen is a female! Therefore earlier to the making of the slide a foreign abdomen had been earlier to the making of the slide a foreign abdomen had been glued to the typespecimen and the slide was made