Drasteria axuana indecora (John, 1910), stat. n.

(Figs. 58–63 (imago), 222, 223 (male genitalia), 274 (female genitalia))

John, 1910a: 420; figs. 1–7 ( Leucanitis indecora). Type locality: “near Baigakum, Syr-darja, Perovsk district… at Aj-darle of the same district” (by the original description); “St. Baigacum, Syr-Darja” (by the lectotype designation, designated here).

Type material. Lectotype female (designated here in accordance with ICZN Art. 74) (Figs. 58–60), labelled: “specimen | typicum” (white paper, printed), “ St. Baigacum | Syr-Darja 19 IV | 1908 Malyschew.” (white paper, printed paper with handwritten date and month) (ZISP) . Paralectotypes: 3 males, 6 females (ZISP) .

John, 1910a: 622 [Baigakum, Aj-Darle, Dshulek]; Poole, 1989: 328; Lehmann et al., 1998: 525 [Bakanas]; Gorbunov, 2011: 58 [southern part of Bolshie Barsuki); pl. 8, fig. 12 [Topar]; Shovkoon, Trofimova, 2016: 607 [Aktobe Prov., near Bozoe vill., sands, N 46°17’; E 58°56’].

Remark. Wing pattern and coloration within this subspecies is darker in common than in the subspecies fumiluna and especially in the nominate subspecies, but it is identical in details with others (Figs. 52–63). The male and female genitalia (Figs. 220–223, 273, 274) are in all three subspecies identical; using these reasons, we rearrange the taxon indecora as a subspecies of axuana due the Principle of Priority.

Habitat (Figs. 300, 302, 303). Deserts and semideserts. Elevation: 200– 700 m.

Distribution. Deserts and semideserts in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, in the river valleys Ili, Charyn, Syr- Darya, in North-Western part of Kopet-Dagh and Kazakh hills. Very local.

Material examined (in total: 35 specimens). Kazakhstan. 1 ♀, 19.04.1908, St. Baigakum, Syr-Darja, leg. Malyschew, slide Matov 0528 (lectotype) (ZISP) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Syr-Daria, Baigacum, Koshantschikoff (paralectotypes) (ZMHU) ; 1 ♂, 3 ♀, 18.04– 8.05.1908, St. Baigakum, Syr-Darja, leg. Malyschew (ZISP) (paralectotypes) ; 1 ♂, 27.07.[1909], [ Ajdarle], [leg. I. Kozhanchikov], ex coll. O. John (ZISP) (paralectotype) ; 2 ♂, 28.07.[1909], [ Ajdarle], [leg. I. Kozhanchikov], ex coll. O. John (ZISP) ; 1 ♂, 2.07.1910, Syr-Darja, Dshulek, leg. I. Kozhanchikov, ex coll. O. John (ZISP) ; 1 ♀, 6.07.1910, Borlykul valley, leg. Zarudny (ZISP) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 18– 20.07.1911, Syr-Daria, Baigacum, leg. I. Kozhanchikov, ex coll. O. John (ZISP) ; 1 ♂, 11– 12.08.1912, Baigacum, leg. I. Kozhanchikov (ZISP) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 14.05.1984, Balkhash environs, 150 km NW Bakanas, Taspakha, leg. M. Danilevsky, ex coll. A.V. Nekrasov (ZISP) ; 1 ♀, 11.07.1986, Balkhash env., Topar, leg. A. Kondratyev, ex coll. A.V. Nekrasov (ZISP) ; 2 ♀, 2.05.1990, Balkhash env., 20 km E Topar, Zhel-Turanga, leg. S. Toropov, ex coll. A.V. Nekra- sov (ZISP) ; 1 ♂, 06.1996, Alma-Ata, Talgarskoe valley, 1500 m, leg. Kadyrbekov, ex coll. A.V. Nekrasov (ZISP) ; 2 ♀, 25– 27.04.2011, Almaty Prov., 32 km NW of Bakanas, Ili river, leg. S.A. Knyazev (CKO) ; 1 ♀, 30.04.2012, 17 km E of Kyzyl-Orda city, 138 m, 44º47’N, 65º44’E, leg. P. Gorbunov (OPB) ; 1 ♂, 7– 9.05.2013, Almaty reg., 28 km NW of Bakanas, riv. Ili, 44054’ N 75055’ E, leg. S. Knyazev (ZISP) ; 1 ♂, 2 ♀, 1.05.2014, Tartagai, 142 m, Syr Darya river bank, N 44º24’37.7”, E 66º16’30.0”, leg. D. Shovkoon (OPB) ; 2 ♂, 3 ♀, 5– 6.05.2017, Kyzylorda Prov., 15 km NE of Kyzylorda, sands, leg. S.A. Knyazev (CKO) . Turkmenistan. 1 ♀, 11.04.1892, Tekke, Dortkuju, [leg. O. Herz], ex coll. Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich (ZISP) (paralectotype) ; 1 ♀, Tekke, [Dortkuju], 11.04.1892, [leg. O. Herz], ex coll. Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich (ZISP) (paralectotype).