Pseudochondrula tetrodon (Mortillet, 1854)

Pseudochondrula tetrodon (Mortillet, 1854) View in CoL

Chondrula tetrodon : Aliyev, 1973: 7

Azerbaijan: Lesser Caucasus ( Aliyev, 1973).

Distribution: Georgia and Armenia ( Sysoev, Schileyko, 2009) .

Remarks. The presence of this species in Azerbaijan is questionable. Often confused with small specimens of Chondrula tridens (Müller, 1774) .

Acknowledgments

The author is grateful to Roman Egorov (Moscow, Russia) and two reviewers - Burçin Aşkım Gümüş ( Turkiye) and Pavel V. Kijashko ( Russia) for valuable comments and suggestions during preparation on this work.

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