Eupithecia relaxata

Eupithecia relaxata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Eupithecia
Species: E. relaxata
Binomial name
Eupithecia relaxata
Dietze, 1904[1]
Synonyms
  • Eupithecia unedonata var. relaxata Dietze, 1904
  • Eupithecia costisignata Dietze, 1904
  • Eupithecia pamiri Vojnits, 1988
  • Eupithecia vicariata Dietze, 1903
  • Eupithecia adjunctata Dietze, 1904

Eupithecia relaxata is a moth in the Geometridae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Turkmenistan (the Kopet-Dagh Mountains), Iran, Tajikistan (the Pamir Mountains), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan (the Tien-Shan Mountains), Pakistan (Baltistan), Jammu & Kashmir, India (the Ladakh Range), north-western China (Xinjiang) and Mongolia (the Mongol Altai Mountains).[2]

There are two generations per year. Adults of the second generation are smaller than the first.

The larvae have been found in scrub woodland on Amygdalus spartioides in Iran.

References

  1. ↑ Taxapad
  2. ↑ Mironov, V.G. & Ratzel, U., 2012: Eupithecia Curtis, 1825 of Afghanistan (Geometridae: Larentiinae). Nota lepidopterologica 35 (2): 197-231. Full article: .
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