Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Dytiscidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Coleoptera Subfamily Copelatinae | |
Similar Copelatinae, Great diving be, Dytiscidae | ||
Capelatus prykei is a species of diving beetle found on tha Cape Peninsula, close to Cape Town, South Africa.
The beetle has no close relatives in Africa south of the Sahara, instead being related to beetles found in the Palaearctic and Australasia. It has been placed in a genus of its own.
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