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

Holotype çf : "Asia centr. Lob-Noor E. Mai 1904 RÜCKBEIL [hardly decipherable] relaxata DIETZE çf v. R. TANCRÉ 5.03" "Zool. Mus. Berlin" "gen. prep. No. DR. A. VOJNITS NO. 13588 çf"*. Holotype deposited in the Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität. Berlin. Slide: No. 13588 (çf), gen. prep. A. VOJNITS. Eupithecia paupera sp. n. (nec DIETZE, 1913) Eupithecia innotata HUFN. ab. paupera DIETZE (Biologie d. Eupithecien, 1913, p. 127, P1.75, Fig. 488 and P1.85, Fig. 955) Eupithecia innotata HUFN. paupera DIETZE (PROUT, L. B.

: Eupithecia, in: Seitz, 1915, IV, p. 294) Eupithecia paupera DIETZE, 1908 (sic!) (VIIDALEPP, J.: Ént. Obozr. 1978, 57:755) Diagnosis. A large species. Fore wing lengths of the three known males 12. 12.5, and 13 mm; that of the single female 12 mm. Wings elongate, resemling wing shape of Eupithecia mitigata DIETZE, but apex of fore wing slightly more explicit. Basic colour of wings grey, fore wing darker that hind wing. One paratype specimen slightly brownish. Pattern elements obsolete, transverse stripes evanescent on most specimens, absent in one male paratype. Discal spots always well discernible. Underside of wings fuscous, discal spots marked. Cilia medium long, fuscous. Genitalia, çf : Male genitalia largely resemling those of E. mitigata DIETZE. Valvae of some specimens with primordia of a dentiform projection, robust and characteristic in all related species. Aedoeagus thick, cylindrical, with a larger and arcuate and with a smaller and nearly straight dentiform chitinous spine, in addition to a long and narrow chitinous plate and a twisted chitinous formation. Aedoeagus of mitigata considerably bigger, though imagom proper hardly attaining normal size of paupera, and shape of spines also somewhat different. Sternite VIII more slender (Fig. 5).— Q : bursa copulatrix oval, largely padded with minute and rather sparsely arranged chitinous spines. Both anterior and posterior apophyses short, papillae anales flat (Fig. 3). Fig. 4. Male genitalia and sternite VIII of Eupithecia sclerata sp. n. *In several cases I had to apply the remark ,,hardly decipherable". This stems partly from the fact that research wor kers remove the labels when studying the specimens and then attach them again to the pins, boring them through in always new places so that owing to the innumerable holes the script often becomes illegible.