“…belongs to the African natalensis -group of Ecnomus , as indicated by the tibial spurs (2/4/4) and in male genitalia by inferior appendages (claspers) with an apical elongate finger-like lobe. The natalensis -group of Ecnomus includes more than 23 extant species (Barnard & Clark 1986), ranging from South Africa (e.g., E. forbesi Scott, 1968) via central Africa (e.g., E. mennellli Barnard & Clark, 1986) to the Ethiopian region and northwards up to Palestine, and to the Galilee of northern Israel, where E. galilaeus Tjeder, 1946 occurs (Botosaneanu 1992). Ecnomus galilaeus is probably an endemic element of the Levantine fauna (Botosaneanu 1992), but lives relatively close to the location where the extinct Ecnomus cretacia was found.…”