The Carabus fauna of Israel – updated identification key, faunistics, and habitats (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
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The Carabus fauna of Israel – updated identification key, faunistics, and habitats (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
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2008 ZooKeys
Summary
AbstractTh is key to the Carabus species of Israel is an updated identifi cation key with notes on the distribution and
habitats of the species. Substantial additions, corrections and taxonomic changes on the Carabus fauna
of the Middle East generated the need of an update of the knowledge of the genus Carabus in Israel. Th e
classifi cation and the identifi cation of sibling taxa of the subgenus Lamprostus are still a problem: A zone
of sympatry supports the species status of both C. sidonius and C. hemprichi. Th e lack of any evidence of
sympatry for the taxa in species rank of the C. syrus group and their variability of the exoskeleton (mentum
tooth, tip of aedeagus) requires further systematic and taxonomic studies.
Keywords
Carabus, Lamprostus, identifi cation key, faunistical records, habitat characteristics, Israel
Bibliographic citation
Assmann T, Buse J, Drees C, Friedman A-L-L, Levanony T, Matern A, Timm A, Wrase DW (2008) Th eCarabus fauna of Israel – updated identifi cation key, faunistics, and habitats (Coleoptera: Carabidae). ZooKeys 1: 9-22.
doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1.13