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

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

Eupithecia innotata HUFN. omniparens DIETZE (PROUT, L. B. : Eupithecia, in: SEITZ IV, 1915, p. 294). Eupithecia omniparens DIETZE (VHDALEPP, J. : Ént. Obozr., 1978, 57: 755). Diagnosis. With regard to the original (DIETZE 1908) and later (DIETZE 1913) descriptions, the definite grey colour of the form should yet be emphasized. Genitalia çf : Extraordinarily similar to those of E. praesignata BOHATSCH, but uncus slenderer, valva longer; aedoagus considerably longer (Fig. 20); Q : rathy varying, but also similar to those of E. praesignata BOHATSCH (Fig. 22). Biology. First stages and foodplant unknown. Flight period, according to the known labal data, in May-July. Distribution. Occurring in Central Asia. — Locus typicus: Sary-ob. Specific differences. Nearest Eupithecia praesignata BOHATSCH, but, as regards the main external features, praesignata is definitely brownish, omniparens grey. The genitalia are similar in type, and the chief differences appear in details of configuration. Remarks. Both in his earlier (1908) and later (1913) publications, DIETZE described the taxon as a strikingly large form; though unquestionably big, there still occur similarly large or even larger forms, too. PROUT (1915) was of the same opinion, and both DIETZE and PROUT considered it as a form "approaching" Eupithecia parallelaria BOHATSCH. Examined material. 1 $ ( = lectotype, here designated) : "innotata-Torm omniparens, Typ. Sary-ob. Sarawschan Original. K. DIETZE." "Saraw. Sary-ob 18.7.1900 FUNKE Eupithecia Q" "Zool. Mus. Berlin" "gen. prep. No. DR. A. VOJNITS NO. 13550 $ "; 1 çf: "Karagai Tau" "412" "Zool. Mus. Berlin" "omniparens'''' "gen. prep. No. DR. A. VOJNITS NO. 13552 çf" ; 4 $ $ : "Karagai tau" "Zool. Mus. Berlin" "omniparens'''' "gen. prep. No. DR. A .VOJNITS NO. 13551 $"; "Mus-tagata Yarkend" "Zool. Mus. Berlin" "omniparens" "gen. prep. No. DR. A. VOJNITS NO. 13553 $"; "Issykul" "Zool. Mus. Berlin" "gen. prep. No. DR. A. VOJNITS NO. 13.582 $"; "Saishan HBHR" "Innotata" "Zool. Mus. Berlin" "gen. prep. No. DR. A. VOJNITS NO. 13.573 9"- — Lectotype and the other specimens preserved in the Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, Berlin. Slides: Nos. 13552 (çf); 13.550, 13.551, 13.552, 13.553, 13.573, 13.582 (9 9); gen. prep. Á. MÉSZÁR and A. VOJNITS. Eupithecia ochridata PINKER, 1968 (nec PINKER at SCHÜTZE, 1968) Eupithecia ochridata PINKER et SCHÜTZE* (Geometridae, in : Die Lepidopterenfauna Mazedoniens, 1968, p. 17-18). Eupithecia szelenyiiVomns, 1969 (Acta zool. hung., 15: 463-466, Figs. 1-3). Remarks. The majority of specimens now under study bear the label "grisescens", one is labelled "uliata".* PETERSEN, who described (1909) the form "grisescens", examined 15 Eupithecia innotata HUFN. specimens, 10 of them originating from Estland where "grisescens" allegedly occurs. And since he made no allusion to the dentiform projection of the valva — indeed, he stated that "Valva ohne Auszeichnung"— the name, disregarding a nomenclatorial availability, evidently cannot refer to a form with such a valva. The Asiatic E. ochridata PINKER is, incidentally, brownish and not bluish grey like PETERSEN'S grisescens. The wings are less elongate than those of most Asiatic species of the "innotata group". Externally, it seems to stand nearest, among the Central Asiatic species, to Eupithecia corroborata DIETZE, but the genitalia of both the male (Fig. 24) and the female (Fig. 23) distinctly differ. Examined material. I çf : "(Amur) e. 1. Tyrtyn [hardly decipherable]" "Zool. Mus. Berlin" "gen. prep. No. DR. A. VOJNITS." 13531 çf" ; 1 çf : "innotata HUFN. form, grisescens Uralsk." "Uralsk 10. V. 07 çf MAX BARTEL" "Zool. Mus. Berlin" "gen. prep. No. DR. A. VOJNITS NO. 13527 çf"; 1 çf: "Uralsk 10. V. 07 çf MAX BARTEL" "Zool. Mus. Berlin" "Grisescens" "gen. prep. No. DR. A. VOJNITS NO. 13528 çf"; 1 çf: "Tibet (Kuku-Noor) RÜCKBEIL 1898 innotata ab. çf nach BOHATSCH 3.01 4/00 v. TANCRÉ" "zwischen innot. var. unedonata (DIETZE 2.06)" "Zool. Mus. Berlin" "Gen. prep. No. DR. A. VOJNITS NO. 13589 çf"; "uliata STGR"; 1 9 : "Amur (TANCRÉ) e. 1. April 1910". "Zool. Mus. Berlin" "grisescens" "Gen. prep. DR. A. VOJNITS NO. 13530 9"; 1 9 ; "Uralsk *The taxa "grisescens PETERSEN", "uliata STAUDINGER", "kozhantschikowi WEHRLI", and "alexandrina WARDIKJAN" will be discussed in a future paper.