A new species of Charinus Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Israel and new records of C ioanniticus (Kritscher, 1959) Author Miranda, Gustavo S. Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoological Museum), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. & Corresponding author: smiranda. gustavo @ gmail. com smiranda.gustavo@gmail.com Author Aharon, Shlomi Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, 849900, Israel. & Email: shlomi. aharon @ gmail. com shlomi.aharon@gmail.com Author Gavish-Regev, Efrat The National Natural History Collections, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem, 9190401, Israel. & Email: efrat. gavish-regev @ mail. huji. ac. il gavish-regev@mail.huji.ac.il Author Giupponi, Alessandro P. L. Laboratório de Referência Nacional em Vetores das Riquetsioses, LIRN-FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. & Email: agiupponi @ gmail. com agiupponi@gmail.com Author Wizen, Gil Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M 5 S 3 B 3, Canada. & Email: wizentrop @ gmail. com & Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel. wizentrop@gmail.com text European Journal of Taxonomy 2016 2016-09-28 234 1 17 journal article 21871 10.5852/ejt.2016.234 c5f8c0ed-cfa8-4de4-a92c-7c65af0e3899 2118-9773 3846255 New localities of Charinus ioanniticus During a biospeleological study in Israel , several specimens of C. ioanniticus were collected from manmade caves around the country, all of them new records for the species. The localities are: 1) Haruba cave, central Israel ; 2) several caves in Haifa city (along Carmel Mountain Ridge and along the Northern Coastal Plain), northwestern Israel ; 3) Khirbet Roma, Beit Netofa, north Israel ( Fig. 6B ). One of the caves in Haifa (Al-’Atiqa cave) is particularly interesting as it is a man-made burial cave excavated in kurkar sandstone, less than 200 m from the coastline. The cave is slightly below sea level (one of the chambers is flooded with brackish water). This is, to our knowledge, the first record of a C. ioanniticus populations living below sea level. Additionally, new findings were made in the city of Jerusalem , such as in the entrance of the city (Lifta Tunnel) and in Rehavia (Metudela). One additional new record is from the Yalan Dünya Cave (Beyrebucak Village, Gazipaşa District, Antalya Province ) in Turkey ( Fig. 6A ), a private, touristic cave which is being gradually destroyed by human activities ( Aşan Baydemir et al. 2015 ). This record extends the known distribution of C. ioanniticus in Turkey , despite being restricted to the southern region, close to the Mediterranean Sea.