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Eupithecia pimpinellata (pimpinel pug)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Eupithecia pimpinellata, the pimpinel pug, is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is known from most of Europe to Morocco (High Atlas), Siberia, Kyrgyzstan, Altai, Mongolia. The wingspan is 20–24 mm.Eupithecia pimpinellata has elongated wings.The forewing ground colour is ash-grey suffused rufous.The discal spot is large and elongated. Several crosslines, the median with a row of dark spots. There is one generation per year with adults on wing from the end of June to August.
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Prey / Diet

Pimpinella major (hollowstem burnet saxifrage)[1]
Pimpinella saxifraga (solidstem burnet saxifrage)[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0