New taxa and new records of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae) from Afghanistan Author Tshikolovets, Vadim text Zootaxa 2017 2017-11-28 4358 1 107 124 journal article 31295 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.1.4 c821bd51-052e-4057-9c21-063c616208d0 1175-5326 1067439 C0A91E2E-12E7-4436-BC18-4AF2EC2351E4 Plebejus ferganus ( Staudinger, 1881 ) ( Fig. 18 ) 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.).