Eupithecia vetula

Eupithecia vetula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Eupithecia
Species: E. vetula
Binomial name
Eupithecia vetula
Mironov & Ratzel, 2008[1]

Eupithecia vetula is a moth in the Geometridae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.[2]

The wingspan is about 16–20 mm. The forewings are blackish grey and the hindwings are pale grey, but darker to blackish grey at the tornus and along the anal and terminal margins.[3]

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: .
  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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