Dikoleps micalii Agamennone, Sbrana, Nardi, Siragusa & Germana, 2020 Figure 2

New records.

Israel • 4 spcms; Haifa Bay; 32.8211°N, 35.0196°E; depth 11 m; 2 Aug. 2015; soft substrate; grab; NM project (samples HM27(a) and HM27(c)); size of largest specimen: H 0.7 mm, W 0.7 mm.

Remarks.

This species has been recently described from sediment collected in 2016 at 33-45 m depth at Karpathos and Samos islands in the eastern Aegean Sea (Agamennone et al. 2020b). The authors discussed but declined the possibility that this is a Lessepsian species, but one of us (BS) observed non-distinguishable specimens from the Red Sea and we received reports of further indistinguishable specimens from the Persian (Arabian) Gulf (H. Dekker, pers. comm., November 2020). This is the first record for Israel; all specimens were live collected.