Subspecies:

Darevskia rudis rudis  (BEDRIAGA, 1886)

Types:

Lectotype: MRSN (= MSNTO = MZUT) 2737:1 (Museo ed Istituto di Zoologia Sistematica, Torino), designated by Böhme and Budak 1977.

Terra Typica:

Type locality: Batumi (Republic of Georgia) and Trabzon (Turkey).

Relevant taxonomic literature:

• Bedriaga, J. von (1886) -  Description of Darevskia rudis rudis. -  In: “Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Lacertiden-Familie (Lacerta, Algiroides, Tropidosaura, Zerzumia, Bettaia)”. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 14: 17-444.   

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• Böhme, W. & Budak, A. (1977) -  Über die rudis-Gruppe des Lacerta saxicola-Komplexes in der Türkei, II. -  Salamandra, Frankfurt/Main, 13 (3/4): 141-149.    

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  1. Reinvestigation of the syntypes of Lacerta rudis BEDRIAGA 1886 (=nomen novum pro Lacerta depressa CAMERANO 1878, cf. BuDAK & BöHME 1977) and the comparison with a topotypical series show, that only one form is involved. As lectotype for the species, thus for the nominate form, too, the cf` specimen MIZS (Torino) 2737:1 is designated. 2. The populations of NE-Anatolia and Transcaucasia, so far misinterpreted as being the nominate form, represent a distinct form and are described as Lacerta rudis bischoffi n. subsp.

• Budak, A. & Böhme, W. (1978) -  Über die rudis-Gruppe des Lacerta saxicola-Komplexes in der Türkei, I (Reptilia: Sauria: Lacertidae). -  Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 81: 273-281.    

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  New material of Turkish rock-lizards of the rudis-group (Lacerta semcoZa-complex) can be assigned to the forms r. rudis, r. tristis and r. obscura; thus, the last named form is recorded for the first time for Turkey. Geographically intermediate samples could be interpreted as clinal, connecting r. rudis and r. tristis, but it turns out to be more likely, that there are two sympatric different taxa overlapping in the intermediate zone. This possibility which could not be proved until now leads to several extraordinaryly difficult nomenclatorial conclusions. They will be discussed further in a following contribution.