''Eupithecia aenigma'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

in the family Geometridae. It is found in south-western

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

(Yunnan)., 2004: New species of ''Eupithecia'' (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from China, Part III. ''Trans. Lepid. Soc. Japan'' 55 (3): 225-242. Full article

The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

is about 14 mm. The fore- and hindwings are pale warm brown.

References

Moths described in 2004 aenigma Moths of Asia {{Eupithecia-stub