Capelatus is a monotypic genus of diving beetle found on the Cape Peninsula, close to Cape Town, South Africa.[1]
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| Genus: | Capelatus Turner & Bilton, 2015
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| Species: | C. prykei
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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