Eupithecia anickae Mironov & Šumpich 2022, sp. n.
Creators: name: Mironov, Vladimir
name: Šumpich, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Geometridae
Eupithecia
Eupithecia anickae

description: Eupithecia anickae sp. n.
(Figs 5–6, 21, 38)
Type material: Holotype, ♀, China, N. Yunnan, North from Yongseng, 26°31,14ʹ N, 100°44,52ʹ E, 11.v.2018, H— 2050 m, lgt. Butvila & Saldaitis. Gen. prep. J. Procházka 20134, photo J. Šumpich 22001 (NMPC). Paratypes 2 ♀, the same locality, date and collectors. Photo J. Šumpich 22002 and 22003 (NMPC).
Diagnosis. This species possibly belongs to the lanceata species-group (Mironov 2003). The pattern on the fore wings is typical for many other species of this group, such as E. lanceata (Hübner, [1825]), E. kudoi Inoue, 1983; E. habermani Viidalepp & Mironov, 1988; E. dolichoptera Galsworthy & Mironov, 2013; E. fortis Mironov & Galsworthy, 2004 and others. The female genitalia of E. anickae sp. n. are however not similar to the genitalia of other species in this group. It’s genitalia rather similar to those of E. selinata Herrich-Schäffer, 1861 in the disposition of spines in the bursa copulatrix, and especially the long longitudinal row of large spines on one side.
Description. Adult. (Figs 5–6, 21). Female. Relatively small, narrowed winged species. Wingspan 17 mm, fore wing 9 mm. Head and notum covered with brown scales. Fore wing elongated, narrow; costal margin evenly convex; apex pointed. Ground colour brown, medial area slightly darker than rest of wing; basal transverse line evenly curved; antemedial oblique, sharply angled from discal dot on to costa; postmedial line curved under discal dot and almost perpendicular to costal margin; terminal area darker, blackish brown, especially near apical half; discal dot large, ovoid, black. Hind wing ovoid, pale brown, paler than fore wing; two transverse lines: basal and medial well visible; terminal area slightly darker; discal dot small, rounded, dark brown. Terminal lines narrow, blackish, interrupted on all wings.
Female genitalia (Fig. 38). Bursa copulatrix elongate, pouch-like, sclerotized; approximately ½ covered with spines, with longitudinal row of large, stout spines from spiniferous area to colliculum on opposite of ductus seminalis, and also with numerous scattered small spines in the ductus bursae between base of ductus seminalis and colliculum. Ductus seminalis thick, sclerotized at base. Colliculum collar-like, short and broad, slightly inclined to ductus seminalis. Antrum membranous, widely tapering anteriorly. Tergite A8 square. Anterior and posterior apophyses relatively narrow. Papillae anales rounded, covered with rather long setae.
Male. Unknown.
Bionomy. Host plant unknown. Type material were collected by light in May in dry steppe slopes with sparse vegetation at an elevation of 2050 m (Fig. 43).
Distribution. China. Known from Yunnan province.
Etymology. This species is named in honour of Anna Kvardová (Nižbor, Czech Republic), familiarly Anička— wife of Mr Josef Procházka.
description: Published as part of Mironov, Vladimir & Šumpich, Jan, 2022, New species of the genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) from China. Part VII, pp. 289-304 in Zootaxa 5154 (3) on pages 290-291, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6644714