Apathya cappadocica (Werner, 1902)

HOLOTYPE. Lost (Eiselt 1979); Holotype ZIL 12657b (A. c. urmiana) .

TYPE LOCALITY. Erdschias-Dagh [= Mount Erciyes, Kayseri Prov., Turkey]; the second syntype from Burdur [Buldur], Turkey , is misidentified Anatololacerta danfordi (Günther) (Eiselt 1979); type locality of the Iranian subspecies A. c. urmiana is Kherra, Berdesur River Gorge, West Azerbaijan Prov., Iran .

DISTRIBUTION. S Turkey, N Syria, N Iraq, W Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 78. Confined to the provinces adjoining Iraq (West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Kordestan, Kermanshah, Ilam Prov.) .

HABITAT. Vertical rock walls and rocky outcrops. Anderson (1999) observed this species in a narrow gorge with steep, loose, rocky slopes with overgrazed steppe vegetation with Crataegus, Juglans, Olea, and Pistacia trees.

REMARKS. All Iranian populations are attributed to A. c. urmiana Lantz & Suchow (for map of the distribution of all A. cappadocica subspecies see Kapli et al. (2013)).

REFERENCES. Lantz & Suchow (1934); Eiselt (1979); Anderson (1999); Arnold et al. (2007); Rajabizadeh et al. (2010c); Kapli et al. (2013).