''Eupithecia scoriodes'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

of the family

Geometridae The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies. Their scientific name derives from the Ancient Greek ''geo'' γεω (derivative form of or "the earth"), and ''metr ...

. It was first described by

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern m ...

in 1899. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Maui. It is a dark, nearly black species. It is similar to ''

Eupithecia phaeocausta ''Eupithecia phaeocausta'' is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1899. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Molokai Molokai , or Molokai (), is the fifth most populated of the eight major islan ...

'', but the markings are much more definite.

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* scoriodes Endemic moths of Hawaii Moths described in 1899 {{Eupithecia-stub