Eupithecia cestata

{{Short description|Species of moth}}

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|genus = Eupithecia

| species = cestata

| authority = (Hulst, 1896){{cite web |last=Yu |first=Dicky Sick Ki |url=http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82857617 |title=Eupithecia cestata (Hulst 1896) |website=Home of Ichneumonoidea |publisher=Taxapad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325011913/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82857617 |archive-date=March 25, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=7603 |title=910442.00 – 7603 – Eupithecia cestata – (Hulst, 1896) |website=North American Moth Photographers Group |publisher=Mississippi State University |accessdate=April 29, 2019}}

| synonyms = *Tephroclystia cestata Hulst, 1896

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Eupithecia cestata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by George Duryea Hulst in 1896. It is found in the US state of California.

The wingspan is about {{convert|20|–|21|mm}}.{{cite journal |last=McDunnough |first=James H. |author-link=James Halliday McDunnough |date=1949 |url=http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/leprefs/B093a08.pdf |title=Revision of the North American species of the genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=93 |pages=533–728 |access-date=2024-02-24 |archive-date=2013-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195738/http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/leprefs/B093a08.pdf |url-status=dead }} Adults have been recorded on wing from March to June.