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Issue: Vol. 1516 No. 1: 28 Jun. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-06-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1516.1.5
Page range: 49–60
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 16

Three new species of Eupithecia Curtis from Arizona and New Mexico with discussion of associated species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Eupitheciini)

5405 Bill Nye Ave., R.R. 3, Laramie, WY 82070, USA McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, FL
Lepidoptera Arizona Eupithecia anticaria Eupithecia macfarlandi Eupithecia nonanticaria Eupithecia penablanca Eupitheciini Geometridae Mexico New Mexico taxonomy

Abstract

Eupithecia macfarlandi, new species, and Eupithecia penablanca, new species, from southern Arizona, and Eupithecia nonanticaria, new species, from southwestern New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, and Chihuahua, Mexico are described. Adults and male and female genitalia are illustrated. Eupithecia anticaria Walker and E. nonanticaria are compared.

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