Calosoma chlorostictum Dejean, 1831

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

Calosoma chlorostictum Dejean, 1831

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Dispersal power: Macropterous, flight active.

Habitat: Unknown in the Levant. In St Helena, Basilewsky (1972) reports this species from meadows at altitudes up to 1,400 m, where rain can fall in any season.

Phenology: Adults throughout the year ( Bruschi 2013).

Distribution range: From St Helena and Cape Verde Islands through North Africa to Persian Gulf, southwards to South Africa and Madagascar ( Bruschi 2013; HÄckel 2017).

Distribution in southern Levant: Egypt (Sinai): northern region and Wadi El Arish ( Mandl 1970; Alfieri 1976; Abdel-Dayem 2004), but El-Akkad et al. (1998) do not mention the taxon for Egypt.