The ground beetle tribe Platynini Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the southern Levant: dichotomous and interactive identification tools, ecological traits, and distribution
Author
Assmann, Thorsten
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9203-769X
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
Author
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
Author
Drees, Claudia
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2743-395X
School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN 1 9 QG, United Kingdom
Author
Friedman, Ariel-Leib-Leonid
Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Klauzner 12, Tel Aviv, IL- 69978, Israel
Author
Harry, Ingmar
Office for Conservation Biology ABL, Egonstrasse 55, D- 79106 Freiburg, Germany
Author
Khoury, Fares
Department of Biology and Biotechnology, American University of Madaba, P. O. Box 2882, Amman, JO- 11821, Jordan
Author
Orbach, Eylon
Remez St. 49, IL- 36044 Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel
Author
Renan, Ittai
Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Klauzner 12, Tel Aviv, IL- 69978, Israel
Author
Schmidt, Constantin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3892-4255
Gartenstr. 8, 21354 Bleckede, Germany
Author
Schmidt, Kilian
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4854-1282
Gartenstr. 8, 21354 Bleckede, Germany
Author
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
text
ZooKeys
2021
2021-06-16
1044
449
478
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62615
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62615
1313-2970-1044-449
E2CB7962B7904B95BD003650F11AE2D
9FB3984FE63050AEBDD824E47EF5EF42
Agonum (s. str.) nigrum Dejean, 1828
Dispersal power.
Fully winged and flight-active (
Chikatunov et al. 2006
; pers. obs.).
Habitat.
A hygrophilous species in a wide range of habitats: from freshwater to brackish water habitats like winter ponds, shaded and unshaded streams, lakes, swamps, etc. Very abundant in the swamps north of the Sea of Galilee (Figs
31
,
33
).
Phenology.
Spring breeder (reproduction. March to May), adults hibernate.
Distribution range.
From western Europe to Central Asia, northwards to Central Europe, southwards to North Africa, eastwards to Central Asia (
Schmidt 2017
).
Distribution in the southern Levant.
From the Mediterranean climate zone to desert zone (Central Negev and Wadi Hasa). Egypt (Sinai, several sites:
Schatzmayr 1936
), Israel (
Schmidt and Liebherr 2009
), Jordan (
Nasir and Katbeh-Bader 2017
), Lebanon, Syria (
Schmidt and Liebherr 2009
).
We did not find the species in the extremely arid and hot areas around the Dead Sea or at the springs in the Arava Valley. Also in the light catches from the En Gedi Nature Reserve (kept in the ZSM), which cover the whole year, the species is missing like all other
Platynini
.
Conservation.
In contrast to some other
Agonum
species not threatened and still widespread. Found even in strongly urbanized areas, like a winter pond circled by highway loops north of Tel Aviv (pers. obs.).