Brachinus (s.str.) atripensis Ballion, 1871

= Brachinus klapperichi Jedlicka, 1956

= Brachinus adelus Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1973 = Brachinus mansorii Azadbakhsh & Kirschenhofer, 2018b: 60 syn. nov.

Species widely distributed in the region (Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) and its discovery in Iran vas predicable. Recently described from Iran (Hormozgan Province) by Azadbakhsh & Kirschenhofer (2018b) species Brachinus mansorii not was compared with material of B. atripensis (as atripennis in article of Azadbakhsh & Kirschenhofer, 2018b), all comparison with the mentioned species was based on vague description and bad drawing of aedeagus from Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1973). Study of material deposited in DUBC, revealed that all distinctive features indicated for separate B. atripensis and B. mansorii are within the range of variability of the species. Here is recorded for Iran for the first time.