On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Aleochara species of the subgenera Xenochara M & R and Rheochara M & R (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) Author Assing, V. text Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 2009 2009-07-15 59 1 33 101 journal article 0005-805X Aleochara (Xenochara) maculipennis BAUDI DI SELVE, 1857 Material examined: Turkey : 1 ex. , "Yarpaz" [recte Yarpuz?], 8.-12.V.1982 , leg. Rydh (cWun) . Syria : A ♂ , Tartus , 6.IV.1990 , leg. Reuter (cFel) . Israel : 1 ex. , Zefat , light trap , 20.VI.2006 , leg. Kuslitzky ( TAU ) ; 1 ex. , Golan Heights , Bental reservoir, W Merom Golan , ca. 1000 m , stony wetland near shore, 30.IV.2006 , leg. Wrase (cSch) ; 1 ex. , same locality, 25.III.2008 , leg. Assmann (cFel). Iraq : A ♂ , N Mosul , SW Hakkâri , Al-Amadiya , 1200 m , 28.IV.2007 , leg. Reuter (cFel) . Iran : 1 ex. , Kermanshah province , Harsin : Nosratabad , 34°12'N , 47°46'E , 1700 m , 24.VI.2004 , leg. Frisch ( MNHUB ) ; 1 ex. , Lorestan province , SE Dorud , Saravand , 2050 m , 27.VI.2004 , leg. Frisch (cAss). Comment: The above specimen from Turkey was probably collected in Yarpuz in Antalya ; to my knowledge, there is no Turkish locality called "Yarpaz". The previously known distribution of this species was confined to Cyprus , " Syria ", and Turkey ; in Turkey it was recently recorded from Konya , Kahramanmaraş , Urfa , and Hakkâri ( ASSING 2007a ). The above specimens from Iran , Iraq , and Israel represent new country records.