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Pareupithecia

Pareupithecia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It contains only one species, Pareupithecia spadix, which is found in the Russian Far East, Korea, Japan (Honshu) and Shanxi, China.

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Pareupithecia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Eupitheciini
Genus: Pareupithecia
Mironov & Galsworthy, 2012
Species:
P. spadix
Binomial name
Pareupithecia spadix
(Inoue, 1955)1
Synonyms
  • Eupithecia spadix Inoue, 1955

Pareupithecia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It contains only one species, Pareupithecia spadix, which is found in the Russian Far East (southern Primorje), Korea, Japan (Honshu) and Shanxi, China.2

The wingspan is about 20–23 mm (0.79–0.91 in).3

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References

  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Eupithecia spadix Inoue 1955". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.
  2. Mironov, V.G. & A.C. Galsworthy, 2012: A generic level review of Eupithecia Curtis and some closely related genera based on the Palaearctic, Nearctic and Oriental fauna (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae). Zootaxa 3587: 46-64. Abstract: [1].
  3. "Taxonomic Review of the Genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae) from Korea (II)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-04. Retrieved 2020-04-30.