Atranus ruficollis (Gautier des Cottes, 1858)

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

Atranus ruficollis (Gautier des Cottes, 1858)

Dispersal power.

Hind wings are longer than the elytra; we know of a flight observation from a car net (Michael Schuelke, personal observation). Boiteau et al. (2000) caught the similar American species, A. pubescens (Dejean, 1828), in flight interception traps.

Habitat.

Softwood floodplain woodlands with Nerium oleander ( Nerium oleander ), Oriental plane ( Platanus orientalis ), and willows ( Salix spp.); mostly close to springs/sources and streams; often under deposited driftwood, in the litter layer, and on small shaded gravel banks. The same habitat is populated in Europe ( Paill and Gunczy 2016) and Cyprus (pers. obs.) (Fig. 34 ).

Phenology.

All our specimens from Israel are from March to May; probably a spring breeder with summer larvae.

Distribution range.

From southwest Europe ( Serrano 2013) to southwest Asia ( Austin et al. 2008; Azadbakhsh and Nozari 2015; Schmidt 2017), northwards to southern Central Europe ( Paill and Gunczy 2016), southwards to Sicily ( Brandmayr et al. 2005), and probably North Africa (Algeria, Lindroth 1968: 649).

Distribution in the southern Levant.

First record from Tanur (Tanur Waterfalls, Nahal 'Iyyon Nature Reserve) ( Wrase 2009), also in the wadis Nahal Kziv and Nahal Betzet (see Suppl. material 1). Probably also in Lebanon, but no records yet.

Conservation.

The damages to water bodies of streams (exploitation, pollution, reduced dynamics of floods due to drainage) ( Goren 2004) has probably resulted in a decrease of habitats for A. ruficollis . In recent years (2018, 2019), chlorinated water has also been used to feed the stream in the Nahal Betzet (pers. obs.).

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.