diff --git a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/TestKrillQueryJSON.java b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/TestKrillQueryJSON.java
index 5e865d1..9ee4bde 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/TestKrillQueryJSON.java
+++ b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/query/TestKrillQueryJSON.java
@@ -571,6 +571,23 @@
         };
     };
 
+	@Test
+    public void queryJSONdistancesWithRegexes () throws QueryException {
+		// "der" []{2,3} [opennlp/p="NN"]
+        try {
+            String json = getString(getClass().getResource(
+                    "/queries/bugs/distances_with_regex_bug.jsonld").getFile());
+            KrillQuery kq = new KrillQuery("tokens");
+
+            assertEquals(kq.fromKoral(json).toQuery().toString(),
+                    "spanDistance(SpanMultiTermQueryWrapper(tokens:/s:der/), SpanMultiTermQueryWrapper(tokens:/opennlp/p:NN/), [(w[3:4], ordered, notExcluded)])");
+        }
+        catch (QueryException e) {
+            fail(e.getMessage());
+        };
+    };
+
+	
 
     public static String getString (String path) {
         StringBuilder contentBuilder = new StringBuilder();
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/search/TestKrill.java b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/search/TestKrill.java
index 774d48e..f4c5b8e 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/search/TestKrill.java
+++ b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/search/TestKrill.java
@@ -1019,6 +1019,31 @@
                 "Operation needs operand list");
     };
 
+	
+	@Test
+    public void searchJSONdistanceWithRegexesBug () throws IOException {
+        // Construct index
+        KrillIndex ki = new KrillIndex();
+        // Indexing test files
+        for (String i : new String[] { "00001" }) {
+			// , "00002", "00003", "00004", "00005", "00006", "02439"
+            ki.addDoc(
+                    getClass().getResourceAsStream("/wiki/" + i + ".json.gz"),
+                    true);
+        };
+        ki.commit();
+
+		// "der" []{2,3} [opennlp/p="NN"]
+       String json = getString(getClass().getResource(
+                "/queries/bugs/distances_with_regex_bug.jsonld").getFile());
+
+        Result kr = new Krill(json).apply(ki);
+
+		assertEquals(kr.getMatch(0).getSnippetBrackets(),
+					 "Mit Ausnahme von Fremdwörtern und Namen ist das A der einzige Buchstabe im Deutschen, [[der zweifach am Anfang]] eines Wortes stehen darf, etwa im Wort Aal.");
+
+    };
+
 
     /**
      * This is a breaking test for #179
diff --git a/src/test/resources/queries/bugs/distances_with_regex_bug.jsonld b/src/test/resources/queries/bugs/distances_with_regex_bug.jsonld
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8d3b9a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/queries/bugs/distances_with_regex_bug.jsonld
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+{
+    "@context": "http://korap.ids-mannheim.de/ns/koral/0.3/context.jsonld",
+    "query": {
+        "@type": "koral:group",
+        "operation": "operation:sequence",
+        "inOrder": true,
+        "distances": [{
+            "@type": "koral:distance",
+            "key": "w",
+            "boundary": {
+                "@type": "koral:boundary",
+                "min": 2,
+                "max": 3
+            }
+        }],
+        "operands": [
+            {
+                "@type": "koral:token",
+                "wrap": {
+                    "@type": "koral:term",
+                    "key": "der",
+                    "foundry": "opennlp",
+                    "layer": "orth",
+                    "type": "type:regex",
+                    "match": "match:eq"
+                }
+            },
+            {
+                "@type": "koral:token",
+                "wrap": {
+                    "@type": "koral:term",
+                    "key": "NN",
+                    "foundry": "opennlp",
+                    "layer": "p",
+                    "type": "type:regex",
+                    "match": "match:eq"
+                }
+            }
+        ]
+    },
+    "meta": {
+        "startIndex": 0,
+        "count": 5,
+        "context": "sentence"
+    }
+}