Аннотация:Purpuricenus interscapillatus cypriensis ssp. n. close to P. i. nudicollis Demelt, 1968 is described from Cyprus. Purpuricenus cornifrons Sabbadini & Pesarini, 1992 recently published as a species (Danilevsky, 2020) is downgraded to subspecies rank: P. interscapillatus cornifrons Sabbadini & Pesarini, 1992, stat. rest.