Plebejus ferganus (Staudinger, 1881)

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Material examined. ♀ with the following labels “ Afghanistan, Bala Quran, Anjuman Valley, N.E . Afghanistan, 10500 ft, 12– 21.7.1963, Colin Wyatt ”, “ Lycaides idas L. ssp. ♀ det. W. Forster 1965” (SMNK) .

Distribution range of species. Afghanistan (first record), western China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Comment. this species was once recorded from Afghanistan by Samodurov (2000) but this record was not based on reliable material (Tuzov pers. comm.).