Microlestes coiffaiti MATEU 1956

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 : 922

Microlestes coiffaiti MATEU 1956

I s r a e l: North District : Upper Galilee , area W Ya’ar Bar’am Reserve , ca. 700 m (stony semi-open grassland, limestone), 30.IV.2006, Wrase leg. [20] (9 spcms., cWR). Upper Galilee , Ha Khula Valley, Ma’agar Einan lake, 73 m, 33°05.137’N / 035°34.730’E (toe of dam, in moist, loamy soil), 1./ 2.V.2006, Wrase leg. [23] (1 spcm., cWR) ; the same but: shore, gravel, sandy/loamy soil (1 spcm., cWR). Upper Galilee , S Ziv’on, 750 m, 33°01.189’N / 035°24.914’E (open stony grazing land, dolomite), 8.III.2008, Wrase leg. [1] (5 spcms., cWR, male genital investigated!) .

Described from Lebanon, and up to now not recorded outside this country (CATPAL 1: KABAK 2003: 423) but the occurrence in Israel was expected. First record for Israel.