Eupithecia pimpinellata (Hübner, [1813])

Geometra pimpinellata Hübner, [1813], Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge 5 Geometrae (2), taf. 86, figs. 443, 444. Syntype (s) lost, [Europe].

Eupithecia altaicata Guenée, [1858], in Boisduval & Guenée, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptéres. 10 (2), 330. Syntypes 5♂, 2♀ (BMNH; coll. O. Staudinger and K. Dietze in MNHU, examined), [Russia]: Altai, Ustk(amenogorsk) (treated as var. of E. pimpinellata in Staudinger & Rebel, 1901).

Eup[ithecia] vellicata Dietze, 1908, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitung, Iris (1908) 21 (2/3): 173; ibidem (1906), 19 (3), taf. 2, fig. 16. Syntypes 2♀ (coll. K. Dietze and R. Püngeler in MNHU, examined), [China]: Urumtschi (treated as subsp. of E. pimpinellata Hübner, [1813] in Mironov, 1990).

[ Eupithecia] pimpinellata f. assimilis Dietze, 1913, Biologie der Eupithecien 2: 118; ibidem (1910), 1, taf. 76, figs 554–556; taf. 85, fig. 949. Syntypes 7♂, 2♀ (coll. K. Dietze in MNHU, examined), [China]: [Xinjiang], Juldus [Yining] region; Ili region.

Also a widespread Palaearctic species. It was repeatedly described from areas of Russia and China bordering with Mongolia as E. altaicata Guenée, E. vellicata Dietze, and E. pimpinellata f. assimilis Dietze. It was recorded for the fauna of Mongolia by Viidalepp (1975) and Vojnits (1975) almost simultaneously. Mongolia (aimags): Bulgan, Tuv.