Drasteria antiqua antiqua ( Staudinger, 1889 )

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 : 64-65

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Drasteria antiqua antiqua ( Staudinger, 1889)

( Map 23 View MAP 23 ) ( Figs. 172–174 View FIGURES 166–186 (imago), 256, 257 (male genitalia), 289 (female genitalia))

Staudinger, 1889: 56 ( Leucanitis Tenera var. Antiqua ). Type locality: “südlich vom Issyk-Kul in Sandsteppen” (by original description); “Issyk-Kul m.” (by the lectotype designation); “Chinese Kashgaria” (after correction, see below).

Type material: Lectotype male (selected by L. Ronkay, designated here in accordance with ICZN Art. 74) ( Figs. 172–174 View FIGURES 166–186 ), labelled: “Issyk-Kul m. | 88 Rckbl” (brown paper, handwritten), “Origin.” (pink paper, printed), “Zool. Mus. | Berlin ” (white paper, printed), “ex coll. 1/2 | Staudinger” (white paper, printed with handwritten numbers), “4289 ♂ | gen.prep.No. | det. L. Ronkay” (white paper, printed with handwritten numbers), “ Lectotypus | Drasteria | antiqua Stgr. | des. L. Ronkay ‘93” (white paper with red borders, handwritten) ( ZMHU). Paralectotype: 1 male ( ZMHU).

Poole, 1989: 327; Lehmann, Bergmann, 2005: 20 [Issyk Kul depression, Central and western part (Naryn), Terskey Ala-Too].

Type locality correction. In the original description the type locality mentioned very clearly as the place southwards Issyk-Kul Lake with sand steppes. In the mountains south of Issyk-Kul such places are not present and the nearest place with sand steppes located in the mentioned direction and were this species was confirmed is Kashgaria (eastern limit of Takla-Makan desert). The type series collector, H. Rückbeil, collected in this area several times (1887, 1888, 1890) ( Staudinger & Rebel, 1901); the types dated [18]88, collected by Rückbeil and thus the type locality must be corrected to “Chinese Kashgaria”.

Habitat. Dry midlands, deserts and semideserts. Elevation: 200–1000 m.

Distribution. Little known species. Southern Mongolia, North-Eastern China on the northern border of Takla- Makan desert. The records from Kyrgyzstan (historical specimens and the paper of Lehmann & Bergmann (2005)) are highly likely erroneous and origin from the species original description where the locality Issyk-Kul was mentioned.

Material examined (in total: 13 specimens). China. 2 ♂, Issyk-Kul m., Rckbl (lectotype and paralectotype) ( ZMHU) ; 2 ♀, 1890, Kaschgaria , leg. Pevtsov, ex coll. Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovitch, slide Matov 0540 ( ZISP) ; 1 ♂, Kashgar , ex coll. Staudinger, ex coll. O. John ( ZISP) ; 1 ♀, Lob-nor , 05.1905, leg. Rückbeil, ex mater. Mus. Acad. Petrop. ( ZISP) . Mongolia. 1 ♀, 2.05.1926, Central Gobi , Erczin-nor near Sogo-Nor lake, leg. P. Kozlov ( ZISP) ; 1 ♂, 2– 3.05.1926, same locality, leg. P. Kozlov ( ZISP) ; 3 ♂, 17– 19.08.1969, South Gobi Aimak , 60 km E dwell Talyn-Bilgekh-Bulak, M.A. Kozlov leg. ( ZISP) ; 1 ♂, 24– 25.08.1969, South Gobi Aimak , 13 km E point Zailan, leg. Guryeva ( ZISP) ; 1 ♂, 16.05.1990, Govi Altai aimak, Bayan Toroy, 1200 m, 96º49´E, 44º53´N, leg. Gy. Fabian, M. Hreblay, L. Peregovits and G. Ronkay ( HNHM) GoogleMaps .

ZMHU	Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universitaet
ZISP	Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
HNHM	Hungarian Natural History Museum (Termeszettudomanyi Muzeum)