The ground beetle tribe Platynini Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the southern Levant: dichotomous and interactive identification tools, ecological traits, and distribution Assmann, Thorsten Boutaud, Esteve Buse, Joern Drees, Claudia Friedman, Ariel-Leib-Leonid Harry, Ingmar Khoury, Fares Orbach, Eylon Renan, Ittai Schmidt, Constantin Schmidt, Kilian Wrase, David W. Zumstein, Pascale ZooKeys 2021 2021-06-16 1044 449 478 8MH89 03964FA4-A59E-5E6E-BEBC-D57B19835F74 Schmidt & Liebherr, 2009 Schmidt & Liebherr 2009 Insecta Carabidae Agonum CoL Animalia Agonum monachum subsp. syriacum Coleoptera 0 449 Arthropoda subSpecies monachum syriacum  Dispersal power. Fully winged and flight-active (pers. obs.).  Habitat. Known only from winter ponds (Fig. 31) and intact large wetlands (e.g., swamps north of the Sea of Galilee).  Phenology. Spring breeder, adults hibernate (pers. obs.).  Distribution range. The species is distributed from Southwest Europe to Central Asia, southwards to Israel and Iran ( Schmidt 2017). The subspecies Agonum monachum syriacumis known from Southeast Turkey to Israel ( Schmidt and Liebherr 2009) and from Iran ( Schmidt 2017).  Distribution in the southern Levant. In the southern Levant recorded exclusively from four sites in Israel, three of them from winter pools in the Central Coastal Plain (Berekhat Ya'ar(sometimes also written Breikhat Ya'ar), Dora Pool and Ga'ashPool; from the latter two sites only single specimens). A large population exists also in the swamps north of the Sea of Galilee.  Taxonomic notes.  Schmidt (2017)listed the nominate subspecies from Israel, but we know only the subspecies subspecies Agonum monachum syriacumfrom the southern Levant. All specimens we know from the southern Levant show a greenish metallic luster on the upper side, despite the indication in the original description.  Conservation. In contrast to  A. nigruma rarely recorded species; we know only two larger populations (Sea of Galilee, Berekhat Ya'ar). Threatened by habitat loss, drainage, and water table drawdown.