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North American Lepidoptera Genitalia Library
Geometridae
9102967593Eupithecia zekiyae Koçak, 1986
  • Eupithecia zekiyae Koçak, 1986 is a replacement name for Eupithecia deserticola McDunnough, 1946, a junior secondary homonym of Tephroclystia deserticola Turati, 1934, now included in the genus Eupithecia and includes as a synonym Eupithecia jamesi Ferris & Mironov, 2007, a replacement name proposed by the authors unaware that the homonymy had already been addressed.
  • Barcode of Life (BOLD) (jamesi) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.
  • Ferris, C.D. & V.G. Mironov, 2007. Replacement name for Eupithecia deserticola (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Eupitheciini). The Canadian Entomologist, 139(1): 131-132.
  • Ferris, C.D., 2018. Geometridae: Larentiinae: Eupitheciini (Part). Lepidoptera of North America, Part 14. Contributions of the C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity Colorado State University, - 191 color plates of adult moths w/ genitalia. (accessed 9/28/2018)
  • Koçak, A.Ö., 1986. More notes on the homonymy of the specific names of Lepidoptera. Priamus, 4(1/2): 55-60.
  • McDunnough, J.H., 1949. Revision of the North American species of the genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 93(8): 671; 725, fig. 17C; pl. 31, fig. 22.

Eupithecia zekiyae
© Cliff Ferris
Images of spread adult and genitalia, Plate 135. (accessed 9/29/2018)

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