Eupithecia nimbicolor

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| genus = Eupithecia

| species = nimbicolor

| authority = (Hulst, 1896)

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• Tephroclystia nimbicolor Hulst, 1896
• Eupithecia adornata Taylor, 1906
• Eupithecia inclarata Cassino & Swett, 1924
• Eupithecia incresata Pearsall, 1910
• Tephroclystia obscurior Hulst, 1896

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Eupithecia nimbicolor is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by George Duryea Hulst in 1896.{{cite web |last=Yu |first=Dicky Sick Ki |url=http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82857669 |title=Eupithecia nimbicolor (Hulst 1896) |website=Home of Ichneumonoidea |publisher=Taxapad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324235143/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82857669 |archive-date=March 24, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=7522 |title=910366.00 – 7522 – Eupithecia nimbicolor – (Hulst, 1896) |website=North American Moth Photographers Group |publisher=Mississippi State University |accessdate=May 2, 2019}} It is found in North America from eastern Newfoundland and Labrador to western British Columbia and from Alaska to Arizona.{{cite journal |last=Rindge |first=Frederick H. |date=July 25, 1963 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/3389/N2147.pdf?sequence=1 |title=Notes on and descriptions of North American Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=2147 |pages=1–23}}

The wingspan is 17–23 mm. Adults are on wing from mid-May to mid-July in the north.

The larvae feed on the flowers of Achillea and Castilleja species and the foliage of Salix, Rosa, Potentilla fruticosa and Ribes species.{{cite web |author=Anweiler, G. G. |date=2007 |url=https://search.museums.ualberta.ca/g/2-6172 |title=Species Details: Eupithecia nimbicolor |website=University of Alberta Museums |publisher=E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum |access-date=December 27, 2020}}