CYTB	Cytochrome b
MC1	Major clade 1
MC2	Major clade 2
MC3	Major clade 3
SC1	Subclade 1
SC2	Subclade 2
SC3	Subclade 3
SC4	Subclade 4
SC5	Subclade 5
N1	Thracian lineage of D. nitedula
N2	Black Sea lineage of D. nitedula
N3	West and central Anatolia lineage of D. nitedula
N4	Northeastern Anatolia lineage of D. nitedula
N5	Eastern Anatolia lineage of D. nitedula
L1	Western lineage of D. laniger
L2	Eastern lineage of D. laniger
CTAB	Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide DNA isolation method
PCR	Polymerase chain reaction
TAE	Tris–Acetate–EDTA buffer
MCMC	Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm
ML	Maximum Likelihood
BI	Bayesian Inference
BIC	Bayesian Information Criterion
AICc	Corrected Akaike Information Criterion
TN93 + G + I	Tamura Nei 1993 nucleotide substitution model with Gamma distribution Invariant sites
HKY + G + I	Hasegawa–Kishino–Yano 1985 nucleotide substitution model with Gamma distribution Invariant
Mya	Million years ago
K–2P	Kimura–2-Parameter
WC	West Caucasian haplogroup
CC	Central Caucasian haplogroup
EE	Eastern Europe haplogroup