Eremias strauchi Kessler, 1878

LECTOTYPE. MLSU 166, designated by Szczerbak (1974).

TYPE LOCALITY. Vagarshapat [= Echmiadzin, Armenia].

DISTRIBUTION. NE Anatolia, Armenia, Azerbaijan.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 105. West and East Azerbaijan and Ardabil Prov. Determination of the specimen from Tehran held in Torino collection (MZUT R2273) requires further confirmation .

HABITAT. Dry stony plains, foothills and hillsides, and also harvested fields. For a detailed list of the habitat vegetation see Ahmadzadeh et al. (2009).

REMARKS. Eremias kopetdaghica (see above) was formerly considered a subspecies of E. strauchi .

REFERENCES. Anderson (1999); Franzen & Heckes (1999); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2008, 2009); Rastegar Pouyani et al. (2014).