Drasteria hyblaeoides ( Moore, 1878 )

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

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Drasteria hyblaeoides ( Moore, 1878)

( Map 14 View MAP 14 ) ( Figs. 115, 116 View FIGURES 106–126 (imago), 238, 239 (male genitalia), 281 (female genitalia))

Moore, 1878: 234 ( Heliothis hyblaeoïdes ). Type locality: “Chiklik (14,480 feet), Yarkund” (by the original description).

Type material: Syntype ( Figs. 115, 116 View FIGURES 106–126 ) in ZSI (Sheela et al.: 2019: 306), labelled: “TYPE” (white paper, printed by red ink); “422/2” (handwritten, white paper); “422” (printed, white paper); “[H]eliothis | [h]yblaeoides | Type Moore” (white paper, handwritten). The type specimen condition is very bad, antennae, almost all legs, abdomen absent.

Poole, 1989: 328.

Habitat. Inhabitant of mountainous places, living in steppes, semideserts and dry meadows with rocks and stones; sometimes can be found in rocky deserts in lowlands. Elevation: 500–2800 m.

Distribution. Kashgar, Kashmir and Tibet. All records from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan belong to D. caucasica ; not even one D. hyblaeoides found during DNA sampling even the ‘ hyblaeoides ’ phenotypes were mainly selected for the analysis.

Material examined (in total: 3 specimens). China. 1 ♀, Lob-nor , 05.1905, leg. Rückbeil, ex coll. Mus. Acad. Petrop. ( ZISP) ; 1 ♀, 20.04.1908, Uch-Turfan vic., leg. Divnogorskaya ( ZISP) ; 1 ♂, 7.06.1909, Kashgaria , Chom- Terek, Chumbuk river, leg. Divnogorsky ( ZISP) .