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 Introduction

D. scabricolle is one of the most common and widely distributed Dorcadion species in Transcaucasia, Turkey and Iran. It is characterized by very strong geographical variability and 39 subspecies are here accepted. A carefull investigation of big series from different localities allows separating 21 new subspecies.

Materials and methods

Photographs were taken with Canon PowerShot G10 digital camera equipped with Cannon Zoom lens 5X IS 6.1-30.5 mm 1:2.8-4.5, Canon PowerShot SX150 IS digital camera equipped with Cannon Zoom lens 12X IS 5.0-60.0 mm 1:3.4-5.6 and Canon PowerShot A640 equipped with Cannon Zoom lens 4X 7.3-29.2 mm 1:2.8- 4.1 and microscope AmScope SM745NTP. All photographs were edited with Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and Helicon Focus 3.20.

Types and other material studied are deposited in the following collections: EH – collection of E.Hajdaj (Ježov, Czech Republic) IP – collection of I.Pljushtch (Kiev, Ukraine) KH – collection of K.Hodek (Brno, Czech Republic) LK – collection of L.Klapka (Česká Lípa, Czech Republic) MD – collection of M.Danilevsky (Moscow, Russia) ML – collection of M.Lazarev (Moscow, Russia) MM – collection of M.Michálik (Hlinik nad Hronom, Slovakia) MS – collection of M.Smirnov (Ivanovo, Moscow Region, Russia) NMP – collection of National Museum (Prague, Czech Republic) PK – collection of P.Kabátek (Prague, Czech Republic) PS – collection of P.Stěpánek (Kladno city, Czech Republic) SM – collection of S.Murzin (Moscow, Russia) VK – collection of V.Kadnikov (Moscow, Russia) VS – collection of V.Skoupý, (Kamenné Žehrovice, Czech Republic) ZIN – collection of Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia) ZMM – collection of Zoological Museum of Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)