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
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,
Transbaikalia,
Yakutia, the Far East,
Mongolia,
Korea,
Japan
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and in
North America
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, from
Yukon and
Newfoundland
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to
New York
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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.
[, 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.]
References
External links
Larch pug on UKmothsLepiforum.deVlindernet.nl
Eupithecia
Moths described in 1842
Moths of Asia
Moths of Europe
Moths of North America
Taxa named by Christian Friedrich Freyer
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