Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea
Erebidae
Erebinae
Drasteria Hübner, 1818
Drasteria graphica Hübner, 1818: 8, by subsequent designation by Hampson (1926): 38. Phalaena erechtea Cramer, 1780, is an incorrect type designation as the name not originally included in Drasteria
= Bolina Duponchel, [1845]: 180 (TS: Heliothis cailino Lefèbvre, 1827: 94)
= Leucanitis Guenée, in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852: 58 (TS: Microphisa rada Boisduval, 1848: xxx)
= Syneda Guenée, in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852: 71 (TS: Drasteria graphica Hübner, 1818: 8). Syneda is a junior
objective synonym of Drasteria
= Synedoida Edwards, 1878: 9 (TS: Synedoida scrupulosa Edwards, 1878: 9)
= Aleucanitis Warren, in Seitz, 1913: 389 (TS: Heliothis cailino Lefèbvre, 1827: 94)
= Drastoria; Walker 1858: 1447 (an incorrect subsequent spelling)
Drasteria sesquilina sesquilina Staudinger, 1888 (Leucanitis)
“bei Samarkand… bei Namangan, Osch und im Alai” (by the original description); “Margelan” (by the lectotype designated by Matov & Korb 2019)
<i>Drasteria sesquilina sequax</i> (Staudinger, 1901) is distributed in South East Turkey, North Iran, South Turkmenistan, and Transcaucasus.
Distribution
Kashmir (Sri Nagar)
Jammu and Kashmir
Indian Himalaya
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