Capelatus
Appearance
Capelatus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Dytiscidae |
Tribe: | Copelatini |
Genus: | Capelatus |
Species: | C. prykei
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Binomial name | |
Capelatus prykei Turner & Bilton, 2015
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Capelatus is a monotypic genus of diving beetle found on the Cape Peninsula, close to Cape Town, South Africa.[1]
The beetle's sole accepted species, Capelatus prykei, has no close relatives in Africa south of the Sahara, instead being related to beetles found in the Palaearctic and Australasia.
References
[edit]- ^ "New Species of Beetle Found Living in Africa". University of Plymouth Press Office. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
External links
[edit]- Capelatus prykei gen. et sp.n. (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae) – a phylogenetically isolated diving beetle from the Western Cape of South Africa Systematic Entomology Early View (Online Version of Record published before inclusion in an issue) published online: 9 APR 2015 doi:10.1111/syen.12128 Pdf