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I don`t have any idea. will that pics help?

Paul Lambourne wrote:For the top boys,( 150 species +) trips must be different.. and difficult...

Mmm... Somehow, it's rather relaxing to revisit places where you don't have that much to grab anymore
After the twitching comes the enjoying, or something like that.

Thomas, is the Eirenis taxonomy settled and stable? I was/am under the impression that the species currently recognised are 'but' morphospecies, lacking some molecular backing so far?

For biochemical data on Eirenis see PDF-0523 in DB:
Nagy, Z.T., J.F. Schmidtler, U. Joger & M. Wink (2003): Systematik der Zwergnattern (Reptilia: Colubridae: Eirenis) und verwandter Gruppen anhand von DNA-Sequenzen und morphologischen Daten.-- Salamandra 39(3/4): 149 – 168.

Jürgen, your Eirenis semms to be a coronella.
Its hard from the pic, but coronella has bars, while in lineomaculatus the blotches are not aranged in real bars and also form a bit of longitudinal, but broken stripes.
To separate them for sure: coronella 15 dorsal scale rows, lineomaculatus 17.

Mario

I had the same trouble in the ID of Israel eirenis. Mario gave me a good response: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=820&start=10

Mario Schweiger wrote:For biochemical data on Eirenis see PDF-0523 in DB:

Thanks! Forgot I had this too
Your mind is like an encyclopedia, Mario!

I think, this is Eirenis coronella, the crown is completely missing, a quite typical individual!

Michael Glass wrote:What matters is the length of the largest Macrovipera!

Alfa male... Length's a number too

Michael Glass wrote:

Jeroen Speybroeck wrote:Alfa male... Length's a number too

Jeroen - I hope that you got my joke and you just acted like you did not, didn't you?

Maybe

Stunning report and pictures !

I was there 3 times in the 80's for birding but I think I would go back for herping !