Eupithecia breviculata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in the Mediterranean region, Switzerland, Hungary, the Near East and North Africa.[2] It is also found in Iran[3] and Turkmenistan.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Eupithecia |
| Species: | E. breviculata
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The wingspan is 15–20 mm. Adults are on wing from April to June and again from July to August in two generations per year.
The larvae feed on the flowers of Peucedanum and Pimpinella species. The species overwinters in the pupal stage.
Subspecies
edit- Eupithecia breviculata breviculata
- Eupithecia breviculata georgica Vojnits, 1977
References
edit- ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Eupithecia breviculata (Donzel 1837)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016.
- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ Mironov, V. & U. Ratzel, 2012: New species of the genus Eupithecia Curtis (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Iran. Zootaxa 3580: 56-68. Abstract: [1]
- ^ Larentiinae (Geometridae) collection of Siberian Zoological Museum
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