Eupithecia macrocarpata
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| genus = Eupithecia
| species = macrocarpata
| authority = McDunnough, 1944{{cite web |last=Yu |first=Dicky Sick Ki |url=http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82857656 |title=Eupithecia macrocarpata McDunnough 1944 |website=Home of Ichneumonoidea |publisher=Taxapad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325005453/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82857656 |archive-date=March 25, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=7470 |title=910319.00 – 7470 – Eupithecia macrocarpata – McDunnough, 1944 |website=North American Moth Photographers Group |publisher=Mississippi State University |accessdate=April 29, 2019}}
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Eupithecia macrocarpata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by James Halliday McDunnough in 1944. It is found in the US state of California.
The wingspan is about 23 mm. The forewings are brownish olivaceous.{{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=2013-03-20 |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 }}
The larvae feed on Cupressus macrocarpata and Cupressus forbesii.{{cite journal |last=Comstock |first=John Adams |date=1964 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34186015#page/185/mode/1up |title=Life History Notes on Eupithecia macrocarpata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) |journal=Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences |volume=63 |issue=4 |pages=171–174 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
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Category:Moths described in 1944
Category:Moths of North America
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