TY - JOUR

T1 - The ground beetle tribe platynini bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera, carabidae) in the southern levant

T2 - Dichotomous and interactive identification tools, ecological traits, and distribution

AU - Assmann, Thorsten

AU - Boutaud, Esteve

AU - Buse, Jörn

AU - Drees, Claudia

AU - Friedman, Ariel Leib Leonid

AU - Harry, Ingmar

AU - Khoury, Fares

AU - Orbach, Eylon

AU - Renan, Ittai

AU - Schmidt, Constantin

AU - Schmidt, Kilian

AU - Wrase, David W.

AU - Zumstein, Pascale

N1 - We dedicate this work to the late Terry Erwin for his entomological performance and enthusiasm for carabidology. With this contribution, we would like to thank him for joint excursions and his manifold support for us. His splendid life’s work in carabidol-ogy and biodiversity research stimulates us greatly and we will never forget him. We thank Joachim Schmidt (Rostock) for his helpfulness in questions concern-ing the determination and synonymy of platynines. Christoph Reuter (Berlin) very generously supported us with carabid specimens from Lebanon and other countries in Southwest Asia. The same applies to Peer H. Schnitter (Halle), Kamil Orszulik (Frýdec-Místek), and Zbynek Kejval (Domažlice). Special thanks go to James Liebherr (Ithaca) and Riccardo Sciaky (Milan) for valuable comments on the manuscript during the review process. We thank also the Israel Nature Protection Authority for giving permits to study insects in the nature reserves. Thanks goes also to those scientists who supported us both in the field and in the collections, esp. Tamar Dayan, Netta Dorchin, the late Amnon Friedberg (all SMNHTAU), and Oded Salomon (Harashim). Publisher Copyright: © Thorsten Assmann et al.

PY - 2021/6/16

Y1 - 2021/6/16

N2 - 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 tax-onomy, 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 includ-ing 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.

AB - 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 tax-onomy, 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 includ-ing 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.

KW - Agonum

KW - Anchomenus

KW - Atranus

KW - Ecological traits

KW - Interactive key

KW - Olisthopus

KW - Orthotrichus

KW - Phenology

KW - Power of dispersal

KW - Winter ponds

KW - Xper3

KW - Ecosystems Research

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85108897665&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3897/zookeys.1044.62615

DO - 10.3897/zookeys.1044.62615

M3 - Journal articles

C2 - 36187209

AN - SCOPUS:85108897665

VL - 2021

SP - 449

EP - 478

JO - ZooKeys

JF - ZooKeys

SN - 1313-2989

IS - 1044

ER -