Asaccus nasrullahi Werner, 2006

HOLOTYPE. ZMUC – R 3447.

TYPE LOCALITY. 12 km NNE of Shah Bazan, near the small affluent Ab-I-Khornos, Ilam Prov., Iran. DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 124. Ilam, Lorestan, Khuzestan Prov.

HABITAT. Rocky valleys and mountainous areas in the Zagros Mountain range with dominant vegetation represented by oak trees ( Quercus brantii).

REMARKS. The position of A. nasrullahi in the phylogeny of the genus by Papenfuss et al. (2010) was not satisfactorily resolved, presumably because most of the Iranian species were missing in the analyses. REFERENCES. Werner (2006); Nazari-Serenjeh & Torki (2008b); Papenfuss et al. (2010); Torki et al. (2010).