Deserticossus arenicola (Staudinger, 1879)

(Figs 9 ¯16)

Cossus Arenicola Staudinger, 1879: 317 .

Type locality: [Narun, nordostlich von Astrachan zwischen Wolga- und Ural-Flu., etwa 15 deutsche Meilen ostwarts von der Wolga] (NW Kazakhstan, European part).

Type material: lectotype (♂) in MHUB (Fig. 9), examined. Designation by Yakovlev (2006).

Synonymy:

= Holcocerus arenicola albida Seitz, 1912: 421 .

Type locality: probably W. Kazakhstan, Valley of Ural River (Seitz 1912) . Type material: “ein sehr helles Stuck mit fast weissen Hflgln sandte mir Herr Bartel als ab. albida ”, probably

lost.

= Holcocerus dilutior Rothschild, 1912: 452 .

Type locality: Kyssyl [near Dzharkent (Panfilov), SE Kazakhstan]. Type material (holotype) in BMNH (Fig. 10), examined. Distribution: Caucasus, Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, N . Afghanistan, NW China

(Xinjang) (Hua et al. 1990; Yakovlev 2006).