Drasteria picta explained

Drasteria picta is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1877. It is found in Ukraine,^[1] Russia, Kazakhstan, southern Turkey, Syria, Armenia, Daghestan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia and China (Tibet, Qinghai).^[2]

The wingspan is 33–34 mm.^[3] Adults have been recorded on wing from April to July.

Subspecies

• Drasteria picta picta
• Drasteria picta radapicata (Staudinger, 1901)

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402131203/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=446596 Fauna Europaea
2. Web site: Naturkundliches informationssystem . 2015-03-09 . 2018-07-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180704035642/http://www.nkis.info/nkis/extaustaxonshow.cgi?uid=guest&tax=25394&lang=g . dead .
3. http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Drasteria_Picta Lepiforum e.V.