Xantholinus (Typhlolinus) gridellii COIFFAIT, 1956

Assing, Volker, 2017, Taxonomic and faunistic notes on some West Palaearctic and Middle Asian Xantholinini, with a revalidation and new synonymies (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 49 (1), pp. 235-252 : 245

Xantholinus (Typhlolinus) gridellii COIFFAIT, 1956

Xantholinus tronqueti BORDONI, 2016a: 27 ; nov.syn.

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Syria: 4 exs., Crac des Chevaliers , 18.IV.2008, leg. Skoupý (cSko, cAss) ; 3 exs., W Crac des Chevaliers, 8.XII.2006, leg. Skoupý (cSko, cAss) .

C o m m e n t: Xantholinus gridellii was revised and illustrated by ASSING (2007). This species is widespread and rather common in the Middle East, from Cyprus and South Turkey across Lebanon and Syria to Israel. In the original description of X. tronqueti , which is based on a unique male with a damaged aedeagus from " Syria: Lac Zanzar", BORDONI (2016a) does not compare this taxon with any other species, not even those recorded from Syria. As can be inferred from the photograph of the aedeagus, particularly its internal structures ( BORDONI 2016a: figure 4), the holotype of X. tronqueti undoubtedly belongs X. gridellii . Hence the synonymy proposed above.