Drasterius heydeni (Reitter, 1891)

Aeolus sericeus Reitter, 1887: 512 . Junior secondary homonym of Heteroderes sericeus Candèze, 1859 ( Coleoptera: Elateridae).

Aeolus heydeni Reitter, 1891: 148 . Replacement name for Aeolus sericeus Reitter, 1887 .

Heteroderes heydeni: Schwarz, 1906: 106 .

Aeoloides heydeni: Dolin & Atamuradov, 1994: 33 .

Drasterius heydeni: Gurjeva, 1995: 617 . For more information, see Cate (2007) and Prosvirov & Savitsky (2011).

Distribution. Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan (Cate 2007, Platia 2010 a, Akhter et al. 2012 a, Naz et al. 2012, Platia & Ahmed 2016, Platia & Ghahari 2016).

Literature. Cate (2007: 106): catalogue; Platia (2010a: 26): distributional remark [as Aeoloides]; Akhter et al. (2012a: 49): catalogue, distributional record from Pakistan [as Heteroderes]; Naz et al. (2012: 97): revision, figures of habitus and male genitalia [as Heteroderes]; Platia & Ahmed (2016: 11): distributional record from Pakistan [as Heteroderes]; Platia & Ghahari (2016: 244): distributional remark [as Aeoloides].

Remark. Akhter et al. (2012a) erroneously listed also India but this probably happened due to a misinterpretation of the abbreviation “IN” for Iran in Cate (2007).