Drasteria hyblaeoides (Moore, 1878)

(Map 14) (Figs. 115, 116 (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) 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) .