Review of the Hygrophilous Weevils in Israel (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)

Abstract

Forty-one species in 20 genera of hygrophilous weevils belonging to Brentidae and Curculionidae, associated with inland aquatic habitats, have been recorded recently from Israel, eight of them for the first time. Thirty-four species are extant, while five species have probably become extinct recently, and two are fossil species, known from Late Cretaceous deposits. Sixteen species are either aquatic or semi-aquatic, while the rest occur only or predominantly on riparian vegetation. Distributional and biological data for most of the species are provided. A key to all hygrophilous weevil taxa and illustrations for most of the species are provided.

The first Western Palearctic record of Euprosthenops Pocock (Araneae, Pisauridae), with description of a new species from Israel

“…Within the weevil family Curculionidae , the paleotropical (and mostly Afrotropical) genus Aorus Schoenherr, 1835 is represented in Israel by A. anthracinus Brancsik, 1898, and this sole Palearctic record is the northernmost point of the genus distribution ( Friedman 2018 ). A similar situation is observed in the African weevil genus Bradybibastes Heller, 1923, where one of species, B.…”