Calosoma ewersmanni (Chaudoir, 1850)

Assmann, Thorsten, Boutaud, Estève, Buse, Jörn, Drees, Claudia, Friedman, Ariel-Leib-Leonid, Hetzel, Andreas, Orbach, Eylon, Renan, Ittai, Reuter, Christoph & Wrase, David W., 2020, The Caterpillar Hunter Beetles Calosoma Weber (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in the southern Levant, Israel Journal of Entomology (Oxford, England) 50 (2), pp. 133-158 : 139-140

Calosoma ewersmanni (Chaudoir, 1850)

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Dispersal power: Brachypterous.

Habitat: Steppe habitats at 1,200–1,700 m asl ( Bruschi 2013).

Phenology: Unknown.

Material examined: There are two specimens in the SMNHTAU: 1♀ labelled “ Palestine / F.S. Bodenheimer ” [printed], “ Papyrus , Nuphar , 5-7-[19]34” [handwritten], “ Callisthenes / eversmanni / Det. G.E. Bryant ” [handwritten/printed] and 1♂ “ Hula / Palestine / on Nuphar / VII 1942 / leg. Shulov ” [printed and handwritten], “locality certainly / erroneous!! Probably / Anatolia leg. Bodenheimer ” [handwritten]) ( Fig. 6). There is a suspicion that the specimens were mislabelled, since one of them was admittedly collected on Nuphar , which is a water plant (see also the comment under the Distribution range). However, the mention of papyrus and water-lily may rather refer to the habitat, where the beetles were collected .

Distribution range: Obydov (2002) lists C. ewersmanni as endemic to Turkey. A record of this species in NE Iran ( Ghahari et al. 2009) requires confirmation, and its penetration into North Israel seems doubtful at the moment.