 Generally baby Daresky's vipers feed on newborn rock lizards ("Darevskia valentini") and small orthopterans.This mountainous snake is only known from the southwestern Dzavakhety Mountains in Shirak Marz of Armenia, on Madatapa, Javakheti Ridge, Erusheti Mountains and Akhaltsihe Highland Georgia and the east of the Artvin Province and Ardahan Province of Turkey.The type locality given is "Mount Leghli" (Achkasar), Mokrye mountains (Wet mountains), Gukasyanskii region(former Ghukasyan district), Armenia."