Drasteria oranensis Rothschild, 1920

FAMILY	Erebidae
SUBFAMILY	Erebinae
GENUS	Drasteria
SPECIES	oranensis
AUTHOR	Rothschild, 1920
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Drasteria oranensis sp. nov.
TYPE LOCALITY	Algeria, Ain Sefra, v.1913, leg. W. Rothschild & E. Hartert.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Syntypes 2♂, 3♀, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Rothschild W. 1920. Supplementary notes to Mr. Charles Oberthür's Faune des Lépidoptères de la Barbarie, with lists of the specimens in the Tring museum. Part II. - Novitates Zoologicae 27(1):1-127, pls 14-17.
PAGINATION	97-98; pl. 16, fig. 16

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
arabica	Wiltshire, 1990	Synonym of species
habibazel	(Dumont, 1922)	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Saudi Arabia		Wiltshire E. P. 1980a. Lepidoptera: Fam. Cossidae, Limacodidae, Sesiidae, Lasiocampidae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Geometridae, Lymantriidae, Nolidae, Arctiidae, Agaristidae, Noctuidae, Ctenuchidae. - In: Wittmer & Büttiker (eds.), Fauna of Saudi Arabia 2. - Fauna of Saudi Arabia 2:179-240.	230 (as habibazel)

Notes: Palaearctic: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Libya, Palestine, Tunisia.

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Polygonaceae	Calligonum comosum	Tunisia	Dumont C. 1922. Diagnoses de lépidoptères nouveaux du Nord de l'Afrique. - Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 1922:242-247, 275-277.	247 (as habibazel)