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Another Eupithecia ? - Eupithecia

Another Eupithecia ? - Eupithecia
Aromas, San Benito County, California, USA
November 16, 2008
Size: ~25mm wingspan.
Came to black light. (live oak/chaparral habitat). Similar to .

Moved
Moved from Eupithecia longipalpata.

This is Sample ID 2008GM-0075, the sole specimen in BIN BOLD:ACE3378. DNA barcode does place it near specimens identified as longipalpata but with a separation of over 1.5%, the evidence is inconclusive.

Confusion....
BOLD has recently rolled out an upgraded website. It is still a bit confusing to me, but in many cases it permits a better view of data. There might be some bugs to be worked out there, and I noticed an oddity: You appear to have two photos of this specimen, the marvelous pic of the living moth and also one of a tattered spread specimen. If the photos are of different specimens then that calls for a correction at BOLD. But, even if they are of the same moth, BOLD shows them under two different species names (7468 - Eupithecia longipalpata and 7461 - E. subvirens).

To further complicate things, your specimen appears on the tree for E. longipalpata where the entry says Eupithecia sp. It appears at the very top of the tree at a distance from other entries that suggests uncertainty as to species relationships. See BOLD tree.

The photos are also shown here under Eupithecia subvirens.

I suggest you get in touch with Jayme Sones at BOLD and ask for someone to look into all of this. Perhaps they will assign a solid species name to your specimen and correct the double placement of the photos.

Moved
Moved from Eupithecia.

98.44% DNA match
98.44% DNA match at BOLD to Eupithecia longipalpata.

Eupithecia
Appears to be a very fresh Eupithecia subvirens, but it would be best to see if others concur.

 
Thank you J.D.
for the tentative species ID.

maybe Pasiphila rectangulata
this kind of looks like Pasiphila rectangulata
see mpg pix here.


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