The ground beetle tribe Platynini Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the southern Levant: dichotomous and interactive identification tools, ecological traits, and distribution
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Assmann, Thorsten
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Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lueneburg, Universitaetsallee 1, D- 21335 Lueneburg, Germany
assmann@uni.leuphana.de
Author
Boutaud, Esteve
Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lueneburg, Universitaetsallee 1, D- 21335 Lueneburg, Germany
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Buse, Joern
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8226-1893
Ecosystem Monitoring, Research and Wildlife Conservation (SB 23 Invertebrates and Biodiversity), Black Forest National Park, Kniebisstrasse 67, D- 72250 Freudenstadt, Germany
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Drees, Claudia
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2743-395X
School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN 1 9 QG, United Kingdom
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Friedman, Ariel-Leib-Leonid
Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Klauzner 12, Tel Aviv, IL- 69978, Israel
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Harry, Ingmar
Office for Conservation Biology ABL, Egonstrasse 55, D- 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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Khoury, Fares
Department of Biology and Biotechnology, American University of Madaba, P. O. Box 2882, Amman, JO- 11821, Jordan
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Orbach, Eylon
Remez St. 49, IL- 36044 Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel
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Renan, Ittai
Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Klauzner 12, Tel Aviv, IL- 69978, Israel
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Schmidt, Constantin
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Gartenstr. 8, 21354 Bleckede, Germany
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Schmidt, Kilian
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4854-1282
Gartenstr. 8, 21354 Bleckede, Germany
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Wrase, David W.
Oderstrasse 2, D- 15306 Gusow-Platkow, Germany
Author
Zumstein, Pascale
Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lueneburg, Universitaetsallee 1, D- 21335 Lueneburg, Germany
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Agonum (s. str.) mesostictum (Bates, 1889)
Dispersal power.
Fully winged (n = 2). No flight observation known.
Habitat.
We know the habitat only from one site in Iran: partly overgrown gravel banks along streams at ca. 2350 m a.s.l. Also in Kyrgyzstan at high altitude (2000 m).
Phenology.
Unknown.
Distribution range.
From Georgia to Central Asia and Pakistan (
Schmidt and Liebherr 2009
).
Distribution in the southern Levant.
Schmidt and Liebherr (2009)
indicate an old specimen, labelled
"Syria"
. We do not know any record from the southern Levant.
Taxonomic notes.
For their description of the species,
Schmidt and Liebherr (2009)
had mostly old material and mentioned that the beetles do not have a metallic luster. But, at least one male from recent years has a head and pronotum with a faint metallic luster (sheen) (Fig.
2
).
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
.