Larch pug
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Eupithecia
Species:
E. lariciata
Binomial name
Eupithecia lariciata
(Freyer, 1842)[1]
Synonyms
  • Larentia lariciata Freyer, 1842[2]
  • Tephrocystis luteata bifasciata Dyar, 1904[2]
  • Eupithecia luteata bifasciata
  • Eupithecia catskillata Pearsall, 1908[2]
  • Eupithecia fasciata Taylor, 1910[2]
  • Eupithecia luteata Packard, 1867[2]
  • Geometra residuata Hübner, 1817[2]
  • Eupithecia laboriosa Vojnits, 1977[2]

The larch pug (Eupithecia lariciata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species can be found in Europe, the Ural Mountains, West and Central Siberia, the Altai Mountains, Transbaikalia, Yakutia, the Far East, Mongolia, Korea, Japan and in North America, from Yukon and Newfoundland to New York and Arizona.

The wingspan is 19–22 mm. The length of the forewings is 10–12 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is whitish grey with dark crosslines. The median crossline is sharply angulated. There is a series of small dark stains on the costal margin and tuft of white hairs on the thorax. The hindwings are whitish grey with a small dark spot in the tornal area. The larva can be quite variable - brown or green, with or without light longitudinal stripes, with or without a number of bell-shaped dark spots along the back.

The moths fly in one generation from May to June. They are attracted to light.

The caterpillars feed on larch.

Subspecies

Eupithecia lariciata mesodeicta was raised to species rank in 2008.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Eupithecia lariciata (Freyer 1841)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mironov, Vladimir (2003). Larentinae II: (Perizomini and Eupitheciini). Brill. pp. 164–167. ISBN 978-90-04-30863-3. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  3. ↑ Mironov, V.G. ,A.C. Galsworthy & U. Ratzel, 2008, A survey of the Eupithecia fauna (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) of the Western Himalayas: Part 2, Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 59 (2): 117-143.
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