Synaphris lehtineni Marusik, Gnelitsa & Kovblyuk, 2005

Marusik, Yuri M. & Zonstein, Sergei, 2011, A synopsis of East-Mediterranean Synaphris Simon, 1894 (Araneae, Synaphridae) with a description of a new species from Israel, ZooKeys 82, pp. 35-44 : 37

Synaphris lehtineni Marusik, Gnelitsa & Kovblyuk, 2005 Figs 12, 1516

Synaphris lehtineni Marusik et al. 2005: 125, f. 1-4, 6-14, 18-31 (♂♀).

Comments.

This species was described on the basis of 30 specimens collected from a single Crimean locality ( Marusik et al. 2005). After the species was described, repeated attempts to recollect it from the type locality have been unsuccessful (Kovblyuk pers. comm.). This may indicate that its population density can fluctuate significantly. Although not recollected from the type locality, it was found in one more locality on the south-eastern coast of the Crimean peninsula ( Kovblyuk et al. 2008). Here we provide only comparative figures that enable its discrimination from other East-Mediterranean species. S. lehtineni is the northernmost species of the genus. All specimens were found under stones in the sub-Mediterranean Quercus - Pistacia - Abies - Juniperus forest, on small sheet-webs (Kovblyuk pers. comm.).