Crossobamon eversmanni (Wiegmann, 1834)

HOLOTYPE. ZMB 435.

TYPE LOCALITY. Agytme, Kyzyl-Kum Desert, Uzbekistan.

DISTRIBUTION. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, NE Iran, W Pakistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 32. The easternmost provinces by the Afghan borders (Khorasan Razavi, South Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.) .

HABITAT. A psammophilous species bound to sandy habitats, even sand dunes but stabilized with shrubby vegetation ( Convolvulus, Haloxylon, Salivornia) (Szczerbak & Golubev 1996).

REMARKS. There are disputes concerning the validity of the taxon lumsdenii (Boulenger) from northern Baluchistan. Anderson (1999) places it in the synonymy of Bunopus tuberculatus whereas Szczerbak & Golubev (1986, 1996) consider it a subspecies of C. eversmanni . In addition, the latter authors place (without examining the types) an Afghan taxon C. maynardi Smith in the synonymy of C. eversmanni . Recent authors follow Szczerbak & Golubev’s taxonomy and use the trinomen C. e. lumsdenii (Bauer et al. 2013; Khani et al. 2013).

REFERENCES. Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Anderson (1999); Bauer et al. (2013); Khani et al. (2013).