Drasteria yerburyi

Drasteria yerburyi is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Somalia,^[2] Eritrea, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Iran.

Drasteria yerburyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Drasteria
Species:	D. yerburyi
Binomial name
Drasteria yerburyi (Butler, 1892)[1]
Synonyms
Melipotis yerburyi Butler, 1892 Syneda albifasciata Gaede, 1939 Leucanitis albofasciata John, 1917 Syneda pica Brandt, 1939 Grammodes schematica Meyrick, 1902

The larvae feed on Taverniera spartea.^[3] The species is named after the collector of the type specimen Colonel John William Yerbury.