First record of Megasternum concinnum (Marsham, 1802) – a minute coprophagous water-scavenger beetle (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) from the dung of the water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) (Mammalia: Bovidae) in the Hula Valley, Israel

A minute coprophagous water-scavenger beetle Megasternum concinnum was found in the Hula Valley (the northmost part of the Great Rift Valley), Israel, in the dung of the semi-domesticated water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). The water buffalo is not an original component of the Israeli fauna, but the exact time of its introduction dims out in antiquity. This is the first record of M. concinnum in Southern Levant, and the first report of the beetle fauna of water buffalo dung in Israel.