Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 74. (Budapest 1982)

Vojnits, A.: A revision of the "Eupithecia innotata group", I. (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)

Eupithecia recentissima sp. n. Derivation of specific name : recentissimus = the latest Diagnosis. Fore wing length* of the three known female specimens 12, 12.5 and 13 mm. Wing shape agreeing with that of the spring brood of E. innotata HUFN. Fore wing dark grey with a brownish sheen. Transverse stripes, characteristic of the "innotata group", yellowish, discal spot elongate, black. Hind wing less brownish, rather grey. Underside of wings fuscous with a yellowish sheen, pattern elements indistinct. Cilia rather long, fuscous on fore wing, striated grey and yellowish grey on hind wing. Genitalia Q : Bursa copulatrix elongated pyriform, padded with small chitinous spines. Anterior and posterior apophyses short. Papillae anales small, elongate (Fig. 2). çf unknown. Biology. First stages and foodplant unknown. Flight period of imagos also unrecorded. Distribution. Occurring in Central Asia. — Locus typicus

: Iuldus, Hi. Specific differences. Externally near Eupithecia innotata HUFN., yet genitally satisfactorily different. The female genitalia resemble those of E. omniparens DIETZE. Remarks. A part of the specimens had been relegated to the innotata alliance in the Dietze Collection (Berlin), labelled as "perturbata" and "perturbatra". Assumably a confusion with the species Eupithecia peturbatrix DIETZE. Holotype 9

: "No. 486 Übergang Juldus, Hi. perturbatra [ = in another handwriting]" "perturbata" "Zool. Mus. Berlin" "gen. prep. No. DR. A. VOJNITS NO. 13537 9 "•— Paratypes 9 9 : "Ak-su perturbatra [ = in another handwriting]" "perturbata" "Zool, Mus. Berlin" "gen. prep. No. DR. A. VOJNITS NO. 13.538 9"; "Thian. or. 96 HBHR." "Zool. Mus. Berlin" "gen. prep. No. DR. A. VOJNITS NO. 13.572 9"— Holotype and paratypes deposited in the Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, Berlin. Slides: Nos. 13.537, 13.538, 13.572 (9 9), gen. prep. Á. MÉSZÁR and A. VOJNITS. Fig. 1. Male genitalia and sternite VIII of Eupithecia omnigera sp. n. •Deviating from my earlier papers, I omit the data of the alar expanse and give the measurements of the fore wing only, from base to apex, because most of the cited authors, and principally DIETZE hismelf, submitted these latter data.