Eupithecia scabrogata

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| genus = Eupithecia

| species = scabrogata

| authority = Pearsall, 1912{{cite web |last=Yu |first=Dicky Sick Ki |url=http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82857693 |title=Eupithecia scabrogata Pearsall 1912 |website=Home of Ichneumonoidea |publisher=Taxapad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324222628/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82857693 |archive-date=March 24, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=7583 |title=910422.00 – 7583 – Eupithecia scabrogata – Pearsall, 1912 |website=North American Moth Photographers Group |publisher=Mississippi State University |accessdate=May 1, 2019}}

| synonyms = *Eupithecia vistata Cassino & Swett 1922

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Eupithecia scabrogata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Pearsall in 1912. It is found in western North America from British Columbia to California and Arizona.

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The wingspan is about 19 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=2013-03-22 |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 November to March and in May, possibly representing a second generation.

The larvae feed on the flowers of Arbutus pungens.{{cite journal |last=Ferris |first=Clifford D. |date=2004 |url=http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies/refs/zt00738.pdf |title=Taxonomic note on four poorly known Arizona Eupithecia Curtis (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Eupitheciini) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=738 |pages=1–19 |doi=10.5281/zenodo.158660}}

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Category:Moths described in 1912

scabrogata

Category:Moths of North America

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