Drasteria flexuosa (Ménétriés, 1849)

(= D. inepta (Butler, 1881) (Map 24) (Figs. 175–177 (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), 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.