Agonum (s. str.) marginatum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Assmann, Thorsten, Boutaud, Esteve, Buse, Joern, Drees, Claudia, Friedman, Ariel-Leib-Leonid, Harry, Ingmar, Khoury, Fares, Orbach, Eylon, Renan, Ittai, Schmidt, Constantin, Schmidt, Kilian, Wrase, David W. & Zumstein, Pascale, 2021, The ground beetle tribe Platynini Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the southern Levant: dichotomous and interactive identification tools, ecological traits, and distribution, ZooKeys 1044, pp. 449-478 : 449

Agonum (s. str.) marginatum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Dispersal power.

Fully winged and flight-active; able to quickly colonize restored habitats ( Lindroth 1945; Trautner and Rietze 2017; pers. obs.).

Habitat.

Stream banks and margins of winter ponds and artificial water reservoirs where vegetation is mostly sparse (Fig. 31 ).

Phenology.

Spring breeder ( Lindroth 1945), adults hibernate (own observation).

Distribution range.

Throughout Europe (without North Scandinavia), southwards to North Africa, eastwards to Cyprus, Asia Minor, and southern Levant ( Schmidt 2017).

Distribution in the southern Levant.

Already listed by Bodenheimer (1937) for the southern Levant without exact localities. Recently recorded only from the northern part of Israel (Upper Galilee, Golan Heights, Northern Coastal Plain); there are two old records from the Southern Coastal Plain (Miqwe Yisrael 1941) and Judean Hills (Hartuv 1925).

Conservation.

In most parts of the distribution range abundant, not threatened (e.g., Schmidt et al. 2016).

Figures

Figures 31 - 34. Habitats of Platynini species in the southern Levant 31 Merom Golan (Golan Heights): water reservoir, habitat of Agonum rugicolle, A. sordidum, A. marginatum, A. viridicupreum, A. nigrum, and Anchomenus dorsalis infuscatus 32 Ein Akev (Central Negev): headwater stream in desert, habitat of Agonum nigrum 33 Breikhat Ya'ar (Coastal Plain, east of Hadera): winter pond, habitat of Agonum monachum syriacum, A. viridicupreum, A. nigrum, and Anchomenus dorsalis infuscatus 34 Nahal Bezet (Upper Galilee): softwood floodplain woodland with Oleander (Nerium oleander), habitat of Atranus ruficollis.