Eupithecia exactata Staudinger, 1882

Mironov, Vladimir & Galsworthy, Anthony, 2014, A survey of Eupithecia Curtis, 1825 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) in Mongolia with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 3774 (2), pp. 101-130 : 120

* Eupithecia exactata Staudinger, 1882

Eupithecia exactata Staudinger, 1882 , Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 43 (1–3): 78. Syntypes 1♂, 2♀ (coll. O. Staudinger in MNHU, examined), [ Kazakhstan]: Saisan.

Eupithecia exactata f. modesta Dietze, 1910, Biologie der Eupithecien 1, taf. 73, fig. 380. Holotype ♂ (coll. K. Dietze in MNHU, examined), [ China]: Aksu, Makan-Wüste [Korla, Sai-chin on the label].

Eupithecia procera Vojnits, 1982 , Acta zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 28 (3–4): 418, fig. 20. Holotype ♂ (TTM, examined), East Turkestan [ Kyrgyzstan]: Prov. Semirechgensee, Fort-Naryne. New junior synonym.

Eupithecia opulenta Vojnits, 1982 , Acta zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 28 (3–4): 420, fig. 21. Holotype ♀ (TTM, examined), East Turkestan [ Kyrgyzstan]: Prov. Semirechgensee, Fort-Naryne (synonymised in Mironov, 1991).

Eupithecia subolivacea Inoue, 1996 , Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 47 (4): 241, figs 7, 14. Holotype ♀ (coll. H. Inoue in BMNH, examined), Pakistan: Gilgit (synonymised in Mironov et al., 2008b).

A Central Asian species ranging from northern Iran eastward to Mongolia ( Schütze, 1956; Mironov, 1991; Mironov et al., 2008b), but not previously recorded from Mongolia. There are long series of this species from Mongolia in the collections of ZSM (Munich), ZISP (Saint Petersburg) and IASE (Novosibirsk). The male genitalia of E. exactata were described and illustrated by de Laever (1956). In the same year Schütze (1956) described and illustrated both male and female genitalia. The single known specimen (holotype) of E. procera Vojnits undoubtedly belongs to E. exactata Staudinger. However , Vojnits' genitalia slide no. 892♂, which is referenced to this specimen, belongs to a species from the ” graphata ” group, presumably as the result of a labelling error. Mongolia (aimags): Bayan-Khongor, Khovd, Umnugovi.