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Geometridae 91a0166 – 7460   Eupithecia maestosa (Hulst, 1896)

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Distribution: Alaska to southern California and west to the Rochies. Description/ Field Marks: McDunnough 1949: 552-553; pl. 26, fig. 12,13; text figure 2A-B. Genitalia: See Plate 11 for images of both spread adult and genitalia in Ferris (2018). See Plate 201 for images of both spread adult and genitalia in Ferris (2019). Similar Species: BOLD:ACF5070 - Specimens in this BIN are from the Northeast an likely represent a cryptic species. Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: maestosa Hulst 1896 (Tephroclystis) - MONA 1983: 7460; Type locality: Holotype: Colorado dyarata Taylor 1906 (Eupithecia); Type locality: Holotype: Kaslo, BC harlequinaria Dyar 1905 (Tephroclystia); Type locality: Holotype: Victoria, BC

References

Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced. Barcode of Life (BOLD) - BIN: BOLD:AAA7998 (E. nr. maestosa) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification. Barcode of Life (BOLD) - BIN: BOLD:ACF5070 - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification. Bolte, K.B., 1990. Guide to the Geometridae of Canada (Lepidoptera) VI. Subfamily Larentiinae 1. Revision of the Genus Eupithecia. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 122(S151): 3-253. 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) Ferris, C.D., 2019. Geometridae: Larentiinae: Eupitheciini (Part). Lepidoptera of North America, Part 14. Contributions of the C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity Colorado State University, Supplement, 35 color plates of adult moths w/ genitalia. (accessed 12/7/2019) Hulst, G.D., 1896. Classification of the Geometrina of North America, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 23: 269. 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): 533-728. Species Page at BugGuide.Net Species Page at E. H. Strickland Museum

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