8 STUTTGARTER BEITRAGE ZUR NATURKUNDE Ser. A, Nr. 683 
Tethina longirostris (Loew, 1865) 
Material examined [MCNV] 
Algeria: Atlas Setif, Sebkhet Melloul [about 70km inland], st. 8, 20. IV.-2.V.1949, A.G.S., 
13,1 [the female with a handwritten label “Tethina pictipes Bck det. Skc.”]. 
Distribution 
Palaearctic: Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Germany, Greece (Crete), Israel, Italy, 
Malta, Spain, Tunisia. 
Tethina nigrofemorata Beschovski, 1997 
Material examined [MCNV, ZSM] 
Algeria: Sahara Algerino [Algerian Sahara], Ghardaia [over 460km inland], 18.11.1980, 
A.G.S., 1 2; Sahara Algerino [Algerian Sahara], Oued Djedi [probably near Laghouat] [over 
310km inland], peupl. litorip. [riverbank population], 22.11.1980, A.G.S., 12. — Egypt: El 
Fayoum Oasis [about 220km from the Mediterranean coast and 150 km from the northern 
coast of the Gulf of Suez], st. X785, 13.111.1992, R. MANNESMANN & S. BEEG, 1 2. — Jordan: 
Al Azraq ash Shamali Oasis (85km E of Amman) [about 195km from the Mediterranean 
coast and 120km from the northern edge of the Dead Sea], st. X795, 11.-15.IV.1992, M. v. 
TSCHIRNHAUS, 12 dd, 35 2°; Petra [about 160km from the Mediterranean Sea, 97 km from 
the northernmost edge of the Gulf of Aqaba, and 86 km from the southernmost edge of the 
Dead Sea], st. X806, 21.1V.1992, M. v. TSCHIRNHAUS, 1 2; Petra, Wadi abu Ullayga [see the 
above distances for Petra], st. X805, 890 m, 20.IV.1992, M. v. TScHIRNHAUSs, 8 66,5 22. 
Distribution 
Palaearctic: Algeria, Canary Islands, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece (Crete), 
Israel, Jordan, Malta, Spain, Tunisia. - New to Algeria, Egypt, and Jordan. 
Discussion 
A species closely related to Tethina incisuralis. It chiefly differs from the latter 
species by the following combination of characters: femora always blackish (in 7. in- 
cisuralis the legs are generally uniformly yellowish, except for the hind tibia that 
shows a dark brown ring apically, even though there are specimens sometimes with 
blackish femora as in 7! nigrofemorata), hind tibia strongly infuscated apically or of- 
ten on the entire apical third, surstylus of male terminalia sharply subtriangular in la- 
teral view, gradually attenuating in width towards pointed apex. The two species are 
rather frequent in the eremic places of the Mediterranean area. 
Tethina ochracea (Hendel, 1913) 
Material examined [MCNV, ZSM] 
Algeria: Sahara Algerino [Algerian Sahara], El Golea Lac [salt lake] [about 640 km inland], 
5.V1.1980, A.G.S., 12; Sahara Algerino [Algerian Sahara], Ghardaia, Oued M’Zab [over 
470 km inland], 5. VI.1980, A.G.S., 1d, 1 2; Sahara Algerino [Algerian Sahara], Oued Bechar 
a [at] Bechar [about 390 km inland], zona sabbiosa nuda [bare sand zone], 25.-26.1V.1953, 
A.G.S., 1d.- Egypt: Road “Bahariya > Farafra” (55 km SSW of El-Bawiti) [near Ain Kho- 
man Oasis, about 325 km inland], swept on a 100 m? vegetation area at broken water pipe line 
in extreme sand desert, st. X786, 27.54 N - 28.34 E, 16.11].1992, R. MANNESMANN & S. BEEG, 
22 33, 16 22. — Jordan: Al Azraq ash Shamali Oasis (85 km E of Amman) [about 195 km 
from the Mediterranean coast and 120km from the northern edge of the Dead Sea], st. X795, 
11.-15.1V.1992, M. v. TscHIRNHAUS, 2 22 [cf.—specimens with a slightly protrudent facial ca- 
rina]; Road 15 “Amman — Aqaba”, Al Qatranah (Rest-House “Petra”) [about 150km from 
the Mediterranean coast and 50km from the south-eastern edge of the Dead Sea], st. X802, 
