Eremopeza bicoloripes (Moritz, 1928)

(Fig. 162)

Material examined. IRAN: Persia, Turbeti [ Torbat Eydariyeh], 20.6.1927, 1♂ (Holotype), ibidem , 2.7.1927, 1♀ (Paratype) (ZIN); Persia, Shirvan, 11, 20.6.1927, 1♂, 1♀ (Paratypes) ; Persia, 29.5.1928, 1♀ (Paratype); Turbeti Kheidariah, 23.6.1928, 3♂ (leg. O. Seufigi); E. Persia, Khorasan, 1♂; Khorasan, Torbat-heydari, 5.1950, 2♂ ; Khorasan, Maschad, 5.1950, 1♂ (leg. Salavatian) ; AFGHANISTAN: nr. Herat, 200–1700 m, 18– 20.5.1973, 8♂, 11♀ (leg. G. B. Popov) (all in NHMUK).

Remarks. This species is distinguished from E. cinerascens cinerascens by the bicolor hind tibia of which proximal part is blue, turning to orange-red apically (hind tibia unicolor pinkish red in E. cinerascens cinerascens). The disc of hind wing is variable from greenish to yellow. Mirzayans (1959: 14) listed this taxon as species and all subsequent authors (Bey-Bienko 1963: 266, Shumakov 1963: 62, Bey-Bienko 1967: 427, Presa & Garcia 1983: 9, Otte 1994: 144, Mirzayans 1998: 7, Hodjat 2012: 267) followed Mirzayans (1959). I also agree with them.