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I will send some other photos of those from Mydiat. I have one specimen from Namrun in Turkey, which is for sure P. interscapillatus interscapillatus. These specimens look like really different. Just give me some time.

So that´s it: I made photos of all suspicious specimens:
1 - small one - Namrun, Belcinar env., label 27x9 mm, reared from dead branch.
2-5 -bigger ones - Mydiat, Cayirli env., label 28x12 mm, all reared from the same place from thin living twigs of the same sort of tree (Quercus).

No. 1 is surely interscapillatus interscapillatus. In 2011 confirmed it to me Mr. Sama. (Maybe can it be interscapillatus nudicollis?)
But don´t tell me no. 2-5 are intercapillatus interscapillatus. The shape of the body is different (to no. 1), The male no. 1 has very long hind legs to specimens no. 2-5. The black spot on elytra is also very different.
I don´t say no. 2-5 is only one species, but especially when I take no. 3 or 4 and compare to no. 1, it is simply something very different.

P.S. No. 3 is the same specimen from the first page of this post. The second photo of the living beetle (the one from Nurdagi) - it is specimen reared by my friend from the same trip in 2011. He says that this is from Nurdagi, but I have doubts about it. I think it is reared from Cayirli near Mydiat. So we can pass this one over.

It is very interesting case. I see 1-3 P.interscapillatus interscapillatus and 4-5 P.interscapillatus cornifrons.

It is possible, because occurence of two subspecies in the same area is possible, sympatric, of course (thesis Ozdikmen's in his two papers in 2014 (Purpiricenus and Aromia), after Mayr, are wrong). I wrote recently in polish forum: http://www.entomo.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=849&t=29000

I have doubt.... 3,4 - short antennae but wide spot..... I have no idea.

Any suggestions, Pierpaolo?