A new Copelatus with small eyes from the Eastern Cape Wild Coast, South Africa (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

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作者：
Bilton, David T. [1 ,2 ]
Mlambo, Musa C. [3 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Plymouth, Sch Biol & Marine Sci, Plymouth PL4 8AA, Devon, England
[2] Univ Johannesburg, Dept Zool, POB 524,Auckland Pk, ZA-2006 Johannesburg, South Africa
[3] Rhodes Univ, Albany Museum, Dept Freshwater Invertebrates, Affiliated Res Inst, ZA-6140 Grahamstown, South Africa
来源：
ACTA ENTOMOLOGICA MUSEI NATIONALIS PRAGAE | 2022年 / 62卷 / 01期
关键词：
Aquatic Coleoptera; Dytiscidae; Copelatus; new species; South Africa; DIVING BEETLE; ERICHSON; TAXA;
D O I：
10.37520/aemnp.2022.002
中图分类号：
Q96 [昆虫学];
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摘要：
A new diving beetle, Copelatus mkambati sp. nov., is described from the Mkambati Nature Reserve in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The new species is compared with other Afrotropical taxa with two elytral striae and no submarginal stria (the macellus species group of Copelatus Erichson, 1832). A combination of small eyes, rather weak pigmentation, flattened, subparallel habitus, relatively large head and collecting circumstances all suggest that the new species may be semisubterranean in lifestyle.
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