Xantholinus ( Typhlolinus ) gridellii COIFFAIT

Xantholinus ( Typhlolinus) gridellii COIFFAIT View in CoL (Map 2)

Xantholinus ( Acanthophallus) gridellii COIFFAIT 1956: 58 View in CoL .

T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: seeASSING (2007a).

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Israel: 12, 10, Central District, Nitsanim , dunes between Ashdod and Ashkelon, 29.III.2008, leg. Wrase (cSch, cAss) ; 1, Haifa District, S Haifa, salines at Atlit , 30.III.2008, leg Wrase (cAss) ; 1, North District, Upper Galilee, northern shore of Sea of Galilee , tamarisk flood plain forest between Kfar Nakhum (Capernaum) and mouth of Jordan river, - 200 m, 31.III.-1.IV.2008, leg. Wrase (cSch). Lebanon: 1, Beyrouth, 1878, leg. Appl (cAss) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n: The revised distribution of X. gridellii is confined to Lebanon and Israel in southern Middle East (Map 2). Previous records from Algeria ( BORDONI 1976) and Cyprus ( COIFFAIT 1972) are evidently erroneous and refer to similar congeners. The same is probably also true of the female-based record from Gaziantep ( ASSING 2007a), the only record from Turkey, which most likely refers to X. graecus . For additional records see ASSING (2007a).