Eupithecia zelmira

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| authority = Swett & Cassino, 1920

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Eupithecia zelmira is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Louis W. Swett and Samuel E. Cassino in 1920.{{cite web |last=Yu |first=Dicky Sick Ki |url=http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82857716 |title=Eupithecia zelmira Swett & Cassino 1920 |website=Home of Ichneumonoidea |publisher=Taxapad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325002041/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82857716 |archive-date=March 25, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=7555 |title=910393.00 – 7555 – Eupithecia zelmira – Swett & Cassino, 1920 |website=North American Moth Photographers Group |publisher=Mississippi State University |accessdate=May 1, 2019}} It is found in the US states of Oregon and California.

The wingspan is about 20 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=2013-03-21 |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 February to July and in December.

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Category:Moths described in 1920

zelmira

Category:Moths of North America

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