autochromal females pronotum with fine punctation covered by dense brownish pubescence; very rare androchromal females (2 ex from Akşehir) with very dense irregular pronotal punctation; elytra in males and in androchromal females black with narrow humeral and sutural white stripes; basal white elytral strokes absent or present; autochromal females with brownish elytral pubescence, sometimes with pale irregular dotrsal line or with basal short black strokes; legs totally red or often with black tarsi; body length in males: 11.7-15.0 mm, width: 4.5-5.5 mm; body length in females: 12.0-16.2 mm, width: 5.0-7.0 mm.
Materials. Holotype, male with a label: “Anatolien / Ak-Chehir / 1900. Korb.” – NMP; 131 paratypes: 1 male, 1 female with same label – NMP; 1 female with same label – ZMM; 5 males, 4 females, Asia minor, Ak-Chehir – NMP; 3 males, Asia minor, Ak-Chehir, V. Bodemeyer – NMP; 18 males, 9 females, Turkey, Barla Daği 29.4.1992, Mir. Dvořák leg. –NMP; 3 males, Turkey, n. Igridir, w. Barla, 1500 m, 25.4.1996, S.Kadlec – NMP; 2 females, “Asia minor / Sultan Dagh [Sultandağı] / v. Bodemeyer” – NMP; 56 males, 28 female, Sultandag, S Akşehir between Cankurtaran, 1500-1700 m, 15.4.1973, W.Heinz leg. – VS.
Distribution. Four localities in south-western Turkey are known: Konya province, Akşehir environs [about 38°21΄N, 31°25΄E]; Afyonkarahisar province, Sultandağı [about 38°32΄N, 31°14΄E]; Isparta province, Barla Daği [about 38°03΄N, 30°42΄E] and Sultandag, S Akşehir between Cankurtaran [about 38°17΄N, 31°24΄E].
Etymology. The species is dedicated to a great German entomologist Max Korb, who collected the holotype.
Remark. A form from “Ak-Cheir, Anatolie” with red-brown pale elytral pubescence was described with unavailable name Dorcadion (Pedestredorcadion) scabricolle m. aeruginosum Breuning, 1946: 121 on the base of a single male.
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