Three specimens of Iphinoe crassipes Hansen, 1895 were collected from the sandy bottom shoreline off Blanes (NE Spain). The adut male is herein described. This species was described originally from a preadult male specimen collected in the Gulf of Guinea. Later, a subspecies described from the Israel coast was considered by the athor as a Lessepsian migrant. The present record in the Western Mediterranean casts doubt on this hypothesis. A new hypothesis is discussed.