Drasteria sesquilina sequax ( Staudinger, 1901 )

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 : 17

Drasteria sesquilina sequax ( Staudinger, 1901)

( Figs. 31–33 (imago))

Staudinger, Rebel, 1901: 244 ([ Leucanitis ] Sesquilina v.? Sequax). Type locality: “Kurd. s. oc. (Egin)”.

Type material. Holotype (by monotypy) ( Figs. 31–33 ) male, labelled: “Original” (pink paper, printed), “ex coll. 1/1 | Stauding- er” (white paper, printed with handwritten numbers), “Egin | 82 Nan.” (white paper, handwritten), “ LECTOTYPUS ♂ | sequax | Stgr. | S.K. Korb des. 2016” (red paper, printed with handwritten name and author of this taxon) (erroneous labelling) ( ZMHU).

Habitat. Lowlands, steppes and dry places with rocks and stones.

Distribution. South-East Turkey, North Iran, South Turkmenistan, Transcaucasus.

Material examined (in total: 4 specimens). Turkey. 1 ♂, Egin ( ZMHU) . Turkmenistan. 1 ♀, 25.03.1927, Askhabad , leg. P.Donov ( ZMMU) ; 1 ♂, 12.07.1953, Askhabad , Firuza valley, leg. Potopolsky ( ZMMU) ; 1 ♀, 24.07.1991, Kopet-Dagh , Dushak Mt. ( SKK) .

Figures

FIGURES 22–42. Drasteria specimens. 22–27. D. scolopax (Alphéraky, 1892), lectotype (22: upperside; 23: underside; 24: labels), paralectotype (25), Altyntag, China (26, 27). 28–30. D. sesquilina sesquilina (Staudinger, 1888), lectotype (28: upperside; 29: underside; 30: labels). 31–33. D sesquilina sequax (Staudinger, 1901), holotype (31: upperside; 32: underside; 33: labels). 34–36. D. sesquilina sesquilina (Staudinger, 1888), Koro-Goo Pass, Moldo-Too Mts., Kyrgyzstan (34), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (35), Kaindy river near Inylchek, Kaindy-Katta Mts., Kyrgyzstan(36). 37–39. D. langi langi (Erschoff, 1874), lectotype (37: upperside; 38: underside; 39: labels). 40–42. D. langi obscurata (Staudinger, 1886), lectotype (40: upperside; 41: underside; 42: labels).