Material: ISRAEL: female holotype - Ma'agan Mikhael II/III 1987 Leg. V. K. B. Roth

Remark. Male specimens of Phlegra, identified as Ph. particeps, was found in the same locality - that mutual occurrence is insufficient argument to consider both specimens conspecific, especially that female has no stripped pattern of the male.

Diagnosis. Legs black, epigynal depressions rimmed around, septum narrowing posteriorly.

FEMALE

Cephalothorax dark brown, with eye field blackish brown, covered with inconspicuous, short and adpressed whitish and colorless setae, more dense and more intensively white along edges of dorsal surface of thorax, which give them appearance of two weak white streaks.

Frontal aspect: face dark brown, with lower clypeus lighter yellowish brown; orbital setae around eyes I are longer dorsally, getting shorter laterally and absent ventrally, dorsal ones are fawn (dark orange) over AME, over ALE consist of two bunches - white and fawn, lateral setae are fawn. Clypeus almost bald, with a few longer bristles and sparse, short and inconspicuous colorless setae. Chelicerae dark brown. Pedipalps and legs I dark brow, darker ringed.

Abdomen appear greyish indistinctly irregularly spotted, these spots concentrate posteriorly into indistinct median streak, about 1/3rd of width of abdomen, consisting of thin white and brown chevrons, delimited laterally by darker brown spots, and centrally the streak is more prominently whitish, absent in the anterior part of abdomen. Ventral aspect: sternum brown, coxae lighter, yellowish brown. Abdomen ventrally with median area delimited by light yellowish lines and with two such lines running more medially, sides darker brown, anterior area around epigyne almost white.

Epigyne with two prominent deep grooves, entirely encircled with sclerotized rims, dark brown; the septum separating grooves narrows posteriorly and is distinctly narrower than in Ph. amitai from En Kerem. The anterior half of epigyne is sclerotized, light brown, with sparse brown bristles.

Legs dark brown, ringed, legs III-IV more contrasting ringed with lighter rings and spaces.

Measurements (mm): Female. L. cphth: 2.94, L. abd: 3.40, Leg I 4.05.

Distribution: Israel: Ma'agan Mikhael Seasonal appearance of adult specimens: female - II/III, VI.