Furth David G, Friedman Ariel-Leib-Leonid, Feldstein-Farkash Tamar
Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA.
Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Zookeys. 2025 Sep 19;1252:77-96. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1252.149428. eCollection 2025.
A species of reed beetle, (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Donaciinae) was recently rediscovered in northern Israel. Now a second species, , has been rediscovered (verified using molecular analysis) living further south in Israel. In 2021 a reed beetle expert discovered a very old record of from modern day Israel in the collections of the Natural History Museum (London) from a few specimens collected near Tel Aviv by the British in 1918 during WWI. In 2022 the authors discovered a viable population of in Israel. Given the extensive amount of collecting by many good field entomologists in that region since 1918, it is surprising that this species had not been seen for 104 years. The location, biology, molecular analysis, and other details of this newly found viable population of in Israel are provided here.
一种芦苇甲虫（鞘翅目，叶甲科，萤叶甲亚科）最近在以色列北部被重新发现。现在，另一个物种已在以色列更南部地区被重新发现（通过分子分析验证）。2021年，一位芦苇甲虫专家在（伦敦）自然历史博物馆的藏品中发现了一份来自现代以色列的非常古老的关于该物种的记录，这些标本是1918年第一次世界大战期间英国人在特拉维夫附近采集的。2022年，作者们在以色列发现了该物种的一个可繁殖种群。鉴于自1918年以来该地区有许多优秀的野外昆虫学家进行了大量采集，令人惊讶的是，这个物种已经有104年未被发现了。本文提供了这个在以色列新发现的可繁殖种群的位置、生物学特性、分子分析及其他详细信息。
