Eupithecia breviculata

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| name = Eupithecia breviculata

| image = Eupithecia breviculata.JPG

| genus = Eupithecia

| species = breviculata

| authority = (Donzel, 1837){{cite web |last=Yu |first=Dicky Sick Ki |url=http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82856752 |title=Eupithecia breviculata (Donzel 1837) |website=Home of Ichneumonoidea |publisher=Taxapad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325044307/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82856752 |archive-date=March 25, 2016}}

| synonyms =

• Melanthia breviculata Donzel, 1837
• Eupithecia anatolica Schwingenschuss, 1939

}}

Eupithecia breviculata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in the Mediterranean region, Switzerland, Hungary, the Near East and North Africa.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042406/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=444875 Fauna Europaea] It is also found in Iran{{smallcaps|Mironov, V. & U. Ratzel}}, 2012: New species of the genus Eupithecia Curtis (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Iran. Zootaxa 3580: 56-68. Abstract: [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/z03580p068f.pdf] and Turkmenistan.[http://szmn.eco.nsc.ru/Lepidop/Geometr/larent.htm Larentiinae (Geometridae) collection of Siberian Zoological Museum]

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.