Xantholinus (Typhlolinus) gridellii COIFFAIT (Map 2) Xantholinus (Acanthophallus) gridellii COIFFAIT 1956: 58. 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).

Published as part of Assing, V., 2008, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Paederinae and Xantholinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), pp. 1237-1294 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1284, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5430627