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Figure 1. Male paratype of Eupithecia copaquillaensis sp. nov. in dorsal view. Scale bar: 5 mm.

Figure 2. Male abdominal segment VIII of Eupithecia copaquillaensis sp. nov. Sternum (left) in ventral view; tergum (right) in dorsal view. Scale bar: 0.2 mm.

Diagnosis. The morphology of the genitalia of E. copaquillaensis sp. nov. (Figs 3–6) closely resembles that of E. atacama (Vojnits, 1985) (Figs 8–11), with type locality near Freirina village in the Huasco Province of northern Chile, also recorded in a few localities of the Coquimbo Province (Vojnits 1985). E. atacama was originally described in Heteropithecia Vojnits, 1985, a monotypic genus synonymized with Eupithecia by Rindge (1987). This synonymy has been followed in