Discovery of a specialist Copelatinae fauna on Madagascar: highly ephemeral tropical forest floor depressions as an overlooked habitat for diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)
Author
Ranarilalatiana, Tolotra
Author
Bergsten, Johannes
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ZooKeys
2019
871
89
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.871.36337
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.871.36337
1313-2970-871-89
56C3FB7DAF714C1B8BD108417883D624
Copelatus Erichson, 1832
Remark.
Twenty-five species of
Copelatus
are currently known from Madagascar. All species except those in the
erichsonii
group were recently revised by
Ranarilalatiana et al. (in press)
. The three species described below all belong to the
erichsonii
species group with ten discal and one submarginal elytral striae. Type materials of all
erichsonii
group species described from Madagascar have been examined in the ongoing second part of the revision.