Drasteria cailino (Lefèbvre, 1827)

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Lefèbvre, 1827: 94; pl. 5, fig. 1 (Heliotis cailino). Type locality: “dans le jardin de botanique de Palerme en Sicile ” (by original description).

Type material. Not found.

Beck, 1996: 25.

Distribution. South Europe (Portugal, Spain, S. France, Italy, Sicily, Balkan Peninsula, Ukraine, southern part of European Russia [Astrakhan, Saratov, Volgograd, Orenburg Prov., Krasnodar Kray]), North and Central Kazakhstan, Middle East, Caucasus, Asia Minor, deserts and semideserts (including mountainous) of Central Asia.

Variability. This species has a disjunctive area. South-European part of its area (Portugal, Spain, South France, Italy, Sicily and Balkan Peninsula (nominate subspecies)) and North-African part of the species area (Morocco, Algeria) are out of this paper topic. Ssp. obscura represented in Ukrainian and South-Russian part of the area and in North and Central Kazakhstan and Caucasus. Central Asiatic part of its area (ssp. baigacumensis): SW Altai, Saisan depression, Saur, Tarbagatai, Dzhungar and Boro-Khoro Mts, Mongolia, northern part of Xinjiang Province in China, North and West Tian-Shan foothills in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, Inner Tian-Shan (known only from Naryn vicinity), Gissar and western part of West Pamir, Kopet-Dagh, North Iran and the deserts of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.