Ellobius lutescens Thomas, 1897 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 20:308.

TYPE LOCALITY: Turkey, Kurdistan, Van .

DISTRIBUTION: S. Caucasus Mtns. (U.S. S.R.), south through E. Turkey and W. Iran; perhaps Iraq.

COMMENT: Corbet, 1978:117, and others considered lutescens a synonym of fuscocapillus; but Lyapunova and Vorontsov, 1978, Genetika, 14: 2012-2024, and Lyapunova et al., 1980:293-247, in Vorontsov and Van Brink, eds., Animal genetics and evolution, Junk, The Hague, 383 pp., provided evidence of specific distinctness,

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008075002001.