Eupithecia veratraria

Eupithecia veratraria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1848. It is found from the mountainous areas of Europe and Asia up to Japan.

Eupithecia veratraria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Eupithecia
Species:	E. veratraria
Binomial name
Eupithecia veratraria (Herrich-Schäffer, 1848)[1][2]
Synonyms
Eupithecia geiserata Mironov, 1988 Eupithecia eynensata Graslin, 1863 Eupithecia magnata Milliere, 1873

The wingspan is 24–28 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August in one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Veratrum album. Larvae can be found from July to October. The species overwinters in the pupal stage. It can overwinter up to three times.

Subspecies

• Eupithecia veratraria veratraria (central and southern Europe, except the Pyrenees)
• Eupithecia veratraria arctica Viidalepp, 1974 (arctic Norway, northern Ural and the Kola Peninsula)
• Eupithecia veratraria geyserata Mironov 1988 (Kamchatka)
• Eupithecia veratraria eynensata de Graslin, 1863 (Pyrenees)
• Eupithecia veratraria homophaea Djakonov, 1926 (the Altai and the Ussuri region)
• Eupithecia veratraria perpaupera Inoue, 1965 (Japan, Korea)