[1] Large rock-dwelling land snails with flatted or less often broadly conical shells, some species or populations with an umbilicus.

The natural distribution range of Levantina stretches from the central Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey soutwards to Israel and Jordan and eastwards to the Alborz Mountains in northern Iran[2][3] and the Kermanshah Province in western Iran.

[4] One species lives on Cyprus, and four have been described from the mountains in the west of Arabian Peninsula.

[3] The species-level taxonomy of Levantina is unsettled, because molecular phylogeny based on mitochondrial genes[3] found many of the species recognized by morphological revisions[6][2][7][5] to be very closely related.

[5] For several species (L. longinqua, L. mahanica, L. ninivita, L. semitecta), there are no sequence data whatsoever (as of 2023).