Agonum (s. str.) rugicolle Chaudoir, 1846

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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62615

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E2CB7962-B790-4B95-BD00-3650F11AE2D

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B9FE3727-2886-5013-95E5-476CA4B2FF30

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scientific name

Agonum (s. str.) rugicolle Chaudoir, 1846
status

 

Agonum (s. str.) rugicolle Chaudoir, 1846 View in CoL

Dispersal power.

Fully winged.

Habitat.

Winter ponds and small associated streams. The water reservoir of Merom Golan hosts also a population (Fig. 31 View Figures 31–34 ).

Phenology.

Spring breeder.

Distribution range.

From Southeast Europe to Iran, not in North Africa ( Schmidt 1992, 2017).

Distribution in the southern Levant.

North Israel (Upper Galilee, Hermon, Golan Heights).

Taxonomic notes.

Schmidt (1992) shows the extraordinary variability of the species in terms of both morphology and coloration.

Schmidt, J, 1992. Zur Synonymie des Agonum rugicolle CHAUDOIR, 1846 (Col., Carabidae). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 36: 115 - 121

Schmidt, J, 2017. Tribe Platynini Bonelli, 1810. In: Loebl, I, Loebl, D, Eds., Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1 (revised and updated edition, Aechostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga). Brill, Leiden, Boston: 642 - 675

Gallery Image

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Tribe

Platynini

Genus

Agonum