Distichus (s.str.) planus (BONELLI 1813)

Wrase, DW, 2009, New or interesting records of Carabid beetles from Europe, Madeira, northern Africa, Turkey, from the Near East, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Pakistan, with nomenclatorial and taxonomic notes (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Bembidiini, Brachinini, Cyclosomini, Elaphrini, Harpalini, Lebiini, Nebriini, Platynini,, Linzer biologische Beiträge 41 (1), pp. 901-935 : 908

Distichus (s.str.) planus (BONELLI 1813)

I s r a e l: North district: Upper Galilee, N. shore of Sea of Galilee, Ein Sheva (Tabkha), - 192 m, 32°52.453’N / 035°32.726’E (stony and loamy pasture), 25.IV.2006, Wrase leg. [9] (1 spcm., cWR). Upper Galilee, 3 km W Ma’ala Gamla, ca - 200 m, (swampy bank of sluggish stream), 32°53.469’N / 035°39.608’E, 22.IV.2006, Wrase leg. [5] (1 spcm., cWR). Lower Galilee, ca. 4 km W Tamra (route 70), 32°51.799’N / 035°10.292’E (loamy field edge), 25 m, 25.IV.2006, Wrase leg. [11] (3 spcms., cWR).

Widely distributed from the W-Mediteranean area to Middle Asia and Saudi Arabia, not recorded for Israel in CATPAL 1: BALKENOHL 2003: 231 but mentioned by BODENHEIMER 1937: 108 from Palestine, and previously by CHIKATUNOV et al. 2006, 293, without mentioning exact localities. As it has not been possible to detect exact data, above mentioned findings are probably the first detailed records for Israel.