 In 1967 Mertens raised the name "bornmuelleri" to valid species rank for the Lebanese populations, thus leaving the name "xanthina" for all Turkish populations, which arrangement was accepted by in 1976, and agreed with by Nilson and in their 1985 paper.The species "M. bornmuelleri" is classified as Endangered (EN) according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species with the following criteria