A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae) Author Zonstein, Sergei Author Marusik, Yuri Author Omelko, Mikhail text Zoology in the Middle East 2015 61 4 372 385 journal article 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525 a55cada0-a34a-4733-ba22-22c096b3c07b 807961 Neon rayi (Simon, 1875) ( Figure 5 ) Neon rayi : Roberts, 1998 : 207 , f. (♂♀). For a complete synonym listing and references, see the World Spider Catalog (2015) . Material. ISRAEL : Upper Galilee , Mt. Meron , Ziv’on, 800 m , 33°00’N 35°24’E , 9– 16.V.2007 ( T. Levanony ) – 1♂ ( TAU ). Comments. This species has a characteristic pattern (Figs 6a, c‒d) that allows even juvenile specimens to be identified to species. Neon rayi has a West Palaearctic distribution and is known from the Iberian Peninsula to Kazakhstan ( Helsdingen, 2014 ; Mikhailov, 2013 ). It was not previously known from Israel, and the record from Upper Galilee is the southernmost in the entire range.