Eupithecia peckorum

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| genus = Eupithecia

| species = peckorum

| authority = Heitzman & Enns, 1977{{cite web |last=Yu |first=Dicky Sick Ki |url=http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82857675 |title=Eupithecia peckorum Heitzman & Enns 1977 |website=Home of Ichneumonoidea |publisher=Taxapad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325015828/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82857675 |archive-date=March 25, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=7453 |title=910299.00 – 7453 – Eupithecia peckorum – Peck's Pug Moth – Heitzman & Enns, 1977 |website=North American Moth Photographers Group |publisher=Mississippi State University |accessdate=April 29, 2019}}

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Eupithecia peckorum, or Peck's pug moth, is a moth in the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Roger L. Heitzman and Wilbur R. Enns in 1977. It is found in the United States in eastern Texas, Missouri, Mississippi and Louisiana.{{cite journal |last=Rindge |first=Frederick H. |date=February 19, 1985 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/5276//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N2809.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |title=The Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) of Mississippi and Louisiana |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=2809 |pages=1–18}}

The length of the forewings is 8.3-9.2 mm.{{cite web |last=Eiseman |first=Charley |date=November 27, 2013 |url=http://bugguide.net/node/view/360014 |title=Species Eupithecia peckorum - Peck's Pug Moth - Hodges#7453 |website=BugGuide |accessdate=April 29, 2019}}

Etymology

The species is named in honor of araneologist Dr. and Mrs. William B. Peck of Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg.[https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:bb2m9nOLCIUJ:lepidopteraresearchfoundation.org/journals/16/PDF16/16-075.pdf+Eupithecia+cocoata&hl=nl&gl=nl&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi8uHIjo3oD8Kfn4ZCnpcqFcc6OI_CEiS18UB7pFet-iJGmqElXCd_LFCpWybwtnrVOOrYO37E886Ehe4_oIMBL3BoA9WXOg1aPXIFlx41KxfHWbvswJ2i1P0T2emmFhwTV-iDW&sig=AHIEtbTkUOiTROte4ivOlNB16L8ZrIhM0A Descriptions of a New Species of Eupithecia and the male of E. cocoata Pearsall (Geometridae)]

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Category:Moths described in 1977

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Category:Moths of North America

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