Asellia tridens (E. Geoffroy, 1813) . Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 20:265.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Qena, near Luxor .

DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan to Arabia, Sinai peninsula (NE Egypt) and Israel; Egypt to Morocco, Senegal, Chad, Sudan and S Somalia; Socotra (Yemen); perhaps Zanzibar.

SYNONYMS: diluta, italosomalica, murraiana, pallida.