Drasteria saisani (Staudinger, 1882)

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 : 43-44

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4673.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5611950
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scientific name	Drasteria saisani (Staudinger, 1882)
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( Map 15 View MAP 15 ) ( Figs. 121–123 View FIGURES 106–126 (imago))

Staudinger, 1882: 53 ( Leucanitis Saisani ). Type locality: “von Saisan” (by the original description); “Saisan” (by the holotype data).

Type material. Holotype female (by monotypy) ( Figs. 121–123 View FIGURES 106–126 ), labelled: “Saisan | Hbhr.” (brown paper, handwritten), “ex coll. 1/1 | Staudinger” (white paper, printed with handwritten numbers), “Saisani” (white paper, handwritten), “Origin” (pink paper, printed), “ LECTOTYPUS | Leucanitis saisani | Staudinger, 1882 | Stettin ent. Ztg 43: 53 | Korb, Matov, Volynkin des. | 2016, Feb. 1–4 ” (red paper, printed) (erroneous labelling) ( ZMHU).

Poole, 1989: 330; Beck, 1996: 25; Goater et al., 2003: 80 [In Europe, known from the Ukraine and South Russia. Elsewhere, found in Turkey, Caucasus, and Afghanistan to Central Asia].

Distribution. South Russia (Astrakhan Prov.), Crimea, South Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Caucasus and Transcaucasus, Asia Minor, Middle Asia (deserts and semideserts) and Iran, South Siberia and Mongolia.

Variability. Two subspecies are known: nominate and clara. The last one is much lighter than the nominate subspecies.