A very common, expansive Ponto-Mediterranean species. Synonymised under P. varius by Mauriès
et al. (1997). In light of the study by Frederiksen et al. (2012) we treat P. flavipes as a separate species.
See also P. apfelbecki, P. oenologus (Berlese, 1885) and P. varius (Fabricius, 1781).