Eupithecia vulgata (Haworth, 1809)

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 : 118

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3774.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1A4B2949-1948-4C08-9599-D89A904FB51A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6131781
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C30616-FFA2-5544-B0DB-FF3EFCFA39E4
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Eupithecia vulgata (Haworth, 1809)
status

Treatment

Eupithecia vulgata (Haworth, 1809) View in CoL

Phalaena vulgata Haworth, 1809 , Lepidoptera Britannica (2): 359. Syntype (s) (BMNH), [ United Kingdom].

Eupithecia lepsaria Staudinger, 1882 , Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 43 (1–3): 74. Syntypes 2 ♂ (coll. O. Staudinger in MNHU, examined), [ Kazakhstan]: Lepsa (treated as subsp. of E. vulgata in Mironov, 1989a).

This species, usually very variable and common in Europe, is very rare in the east of its distribution area including Mongolia. It is distributed to the Russian Far East (Priamurje) in the east, but was recorded also for Korea by Vojnits & de Laever (1978). Mongolia: Zavkhan aimag.