The ground beetle tribe Platynini Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the southern Levant: dichotomous and interactive identification tools, ecological traits, and distribution

By

Assmann, Thorsten
Boutaud, Estève
Buse, Jörn, 1979-
Drees, Claudia
Friedman, Ariel-Leib-Leonid
Harry, Ingmar
Khoury, Fares 1968-
Orbach, Eylon
Renan, Ittai
Schmidt, Constantin
Schmidt, Kilian
Wrase, David W.
Zumstein, Pascale

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1044

Pages

449--478

Subjects

Agonum;Atranus;Anchomenus;ecological traits;intera , power of dispersal;phenology;winter ponds;Xper3

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

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

 

Abstract

The carabids of the tribe Platynini from the southern Levant (Egypt: Sinai Peninsula, Israel, Jordan) and adjacent regions of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia are reviewed in terms of species taxonomy, ecological, distributional traits, and conservation biology. In addition to a classical dichotomous identification key to the 14 species of the region, identification tools are made freely available via the Xper3 knowledge database “Platynini, southern Levant”. Besides an interactive identification key, a matrix with character states for the species and single access identification keys are available. A database including all available records from the southern Levant is also provided. First faunistic records are recorded for Anchomenus dorsalis infuscatus from Sinai (Egypt), Olisthopus fuscatus from Lebanon and Iraq, and for O. glabricollis from Iraq. Threatened species are discussed, also with regard to the reasons of their decline. The majority of species lives in wetlands, especially on the shore of winter ponds and streams, which have been extremely degraded in the last decades.