Older records of Rhagovelia nigricans Burmeister from the East Palaearctic and Oriental Region most certainly apply to other species. This includes the record by Chu & Hsiao, 1981, from China (SE: Guangdong, Hong Kong). The record from Israel (Hoberlandt, 1952b) belongs to R. infernalis africana (Fent et al., 2011) from Tunisia may refer to R. tozeur (Fent et al., 2011).