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Issue: Vol. 4138 No. 2: 15 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.2.11
Page range: 392–400
Abstract views: 159
PDF downloaded: 5

Revision of the genus Eueupithecia Prout, 1910 from Argentina (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Sterrhinae)

SNSB – Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (Zoologische Staatssammlung), Munich, Münchhausenstr. 21, D-81247 Munich, Germany
CSIRO, GPO Box 2583, Brisbane, 4001, Australia
Fundación para el Estudio de Especies Invasivas, Bolivar 1559 (B1686EFA), Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina
CSIRO, GPO Box 2583, Brisbane, 4001, Australia
Lepidoptera DNA barcoding integrative taxonomy Neotropical region Parkinsonia aculeata E. cisplatensis E. vollonoides Hausmann sp. n.

Abstract

A new species is described from Argentina: Eueupithecia vollonoides sp. n. and a differential diagnosis from E. cisplatensis Prout, 1910 is given. The genus Eueupithecia Prout, 1910 (Sterrhinae), so far having been retained to be monotypic, includes two species now.

 

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