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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Larentiinae » Eupitheciini » Eupithecia » Eupithecia gilvipennata - Hodges#7581 (Eupithecia gilvipennata)
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Eupithecia scabrogata - Eupithecia gilvipennata
Copyright © 2015 Jim Moore

Eupithecia scabrogata - Eupithecia gilvipennata
In Westwood by outdoor night light; elevation 5100ft, Lassen County, California, USA
April 30, 2012
Size: Forewing length 14mm
Species ID for this specimen to species Eupithecia scabrogata provided by BOLD Systems via DNA.

See here for Eupithecia scabrogata species page at BOLD Systems:
And here for BOLD's Public Data Portal - BIN Page for this specimen.
And here for this specimen's DNA Record Page at BOLD Systems.

Although Eupithecia scabrogata seems to be listed as a synonym of Eupithecia gilvipennata here on BugGuide (see here: (1)), this specimen's DNA was not close enough to the DNA of this specimen of E. gilvipennata (see here: (2)) to be considered a match.

These two species are still listed as separate species at BOLD Systems: E. scabrogata, and E. gilvipennata

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Contributed by Jim Moore on 30 September, 2015 - 1:02am
Last updated 1 October, 2018 - 4:26am

Moved to Eupithecia gilvipennata
Moved from Eupithecia scabrogata.

Tentative ID based mostly on range. See comments below.
… Steve Nanz, 1 October, 2018 - 4:26am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Eupithecia.
… Steve Nanz, 30 September, 2018 - 6:19am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you Steve!
I had forgot about this specimen. Thank you for the new species page.

In my local, the host plant could only be Green leaf manzanita - Arctostaphylos patula, with the assumption, thus, that this moth species may feed on more than one species of manzanita.
… Jim Moore, 30 September, 2018 - 2:40pm login or register to post comments

 
E. gilvipennata
Sorry for my confusion on this. Until more evidence comes in, I think this should be placed in E. gilvipennata.

BOLD: To be certain about the identification for many (most?) Eupithecia, dissection would, I think, be needed until BOLD gets representatives from each branch of the taxon tree for this genus verified by genitalia. Even then, there is uncertainty. Sometimes COI cannot separate species. I’m not even sure if BOLD has a sample of E. scabrogata. Those could all be gilvipennata. The nearest neighbor to your specimen is another of yours followed by one from Gary McDonald identified as bryanti, sample 2009GM-0034, which looks just like the well marked dark form of gilvipennata. I'm not aware of there being a form of either bryanti or scabrogata with that appearance.

Distribution: E. scabrogata - Southern CA east to Cochise Co, AZ. E. gilvipennata - BC south to southern CA and west to CO and NM. (1)

Names: E. scabrogata and gilvipennata do not appear to have ever been synonymized. Gilvipennata was originally described as a form of scabrogata. There was confusion over the identity of true scabrogata which was sorted out in McDunnough (1949), p. 663 (2). I edited the Info page by changing synonym, Eupithecia scabrogata Pearsall, 1912, to Eupithecia scabrogata form gilvipennata Cassino & Swett, 1922 to make it less confusing. Hope I did that correctly.

Host plant: The Info page listed Arctostaphylos pungens as the host plant and attributed this to McDunnough (1949) but I was not able to find it in that references. Ferris (2018) does list that as the host plant in AZ so I changed it. A. pungens and patula are listed by Wikipia in the same section, the rank between species and subgenus. Gilvipennata also feeds on Arctostaphylos including pungens. I don’t think the host plant can be used to nail the ID.
… Steve Nanz, 1 October, 2018 - 3:55am login or register to post comments

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