Eupithecia cichisa

Eupithecia cichisa is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1939. It is found in western China.[2]

Eupithecia cichisa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Eupithecia
Species:
E. cichisa
Binomial name
Eupithecia cichisa
Synonyms
  • Euchoeca cichisa

Taxonomy

The species was placed under Euchoeca for some time under the mistaken assumption that Prout had described it under that genus.

References

  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Eupithecia Curtis 1825". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on August 11, 2018.
  2. Xue, Dayong; Scoble, Malcolm J. (June 27, 2002). "A review of the genera associated with the tribe Asthenini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae)". Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. Entomology Series. 71 (1): 77–133. doi:10.1017/S0968045402000044.


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