Hyptiotes flavidus (Blackwall, 1862)

Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4), pp. 372-385 : 383

Hyptiotes flavidus (Blackwall, 1862)

Hyptiotes gerhardti: Wiehle, 1964: 81, f. 1, 3, 5‒8 (♂♀).

Hyptiotes flavidus: Wiehle, 1964: 81, f. 2, 9 (♂♀).

For a complete synonym listing and references, see the World Spider Catalog (2015). Material. ISRAEL: Haifa , university campus, 32°45’N 35°01’E, 450 m, 29.xii.2010 (YM) – 1♂ ( ZMMU ); Shuni Park, 1 km N Binyamina , 32°32’N 34°57’E, 60 m, 27.xii.2010 (YM) ‒ 1♀ ( ZMMU) .

Comments. This species is known from the Canary Islands across the entire Mediterranean to the northern Caucasus ( Wiehle, 1964), Abkhazia ( Kovblyuk, Marusik, Ponomarev, Gnelitsa, & Nadolny, 2011) and Georgia ( Otto, 2014). This is the southeasternmost record in the range.