Drasteria flexuosa ( Ménétriés, 1849 )

Yu, Alexey & Korb, Stanislav K., 2019, A revision of the genus Drasteria of Central Asia and Kazakhstan with special attention to the adjacent areas (Lepidoptera: Erebidae), Zootaxa 4673 (1), pp. 1-104 : 65-66

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scientific name	Drasteria flexuosa ( Ménétriés, 1849 )
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Drasteria flexuosa ( Ménétriés, 1849)

(= D. inepta ( Butler, 1881) ( Map 24 View MAP 24 ) ( Figs. 175–177 View FIGURES 166–186 (imago))

Ménétriés, 1849: 292; pl. 6, fig. 5 ( Ophiusa flexuosa ). Type locality: “à Bokhara” (by original description).

Type material. Lectotype male (designated here in accordance with ICZN Art. 74) ( Figs. 175–177 View FIGURES 166–186 ), labelled: golden rectangle, “Bokhara” (red paper, handwritten), “ Coll. Acad. | Petrop.” (white paper, printed) ( ZISP).

= inepta Butler, 1881: 620 ( Thria? inepta ). Type locality: “Chaman, Southern Afghanistan ” (by original description).

Type material. Holotype female (by monotypy), “Chaman” ( BMNH).

Poole, 1989: 328; Beck, 1996: 25.

Distribution. North Africa, Asia Minor, Southern area of European part (Astrakhan Prov.), Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Mongolia.

Variability. The following subspecies described: nominotypical from Bukhara, singularis from South Persia, mongolica from Mongolia and caspica from Caspian Sea coast; the subspecies caspica and singularis are synonyms to the nominotypical one.