Dorcadion pusillum tanaiticum Kasatkin, 2002

Figs 4P, 5L.

Dorcadion pusillum tanaiticum Kasatkin, 2002: 277 –280 (original description). Type locality: Rostov area, Miasnikovsky distr., near Nedvigovka ( Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, ZIN) .

Dorcadion pusillum tanaiticum; Lazarev, 2009: 198, 199.— Danilevsky, 2010: 251.— Lazarev, 2011: 257.

Description. This subspecies was described in detail and illustrated by its author (Kasatkin 2002).

Remarks. Unlike the nominal subspecies, in males of D. p. tanaiticum elytra have a darker pubescence with dark elytral stripes, almost as dark as the background pubescence and hence hardly visible; no dark spots of pubescence are present on elytra except the subsutural stripe which is visible only under certain angles of light.

Distribution. South of European Russia (Rostov area) (Fig. 7).

Material examined: S. Russia, Rostov region, Nedvigovka env., 19.IV.2008, leg. A. Abramov (3♂♂, 1♀) [MDCO].