Misplaced Pages

Copelatini

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Copelatinae) Subfamily of beetles

Copelatini
Copelatus sibelaemontis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Dytiscidae
Subfamily: Copelatinae
Tribe: Copelatini
Branden, 1885

Copelatini is a tribe of diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. It is the sole tribe in the subfamily Copelatinae. The largest genus within the tribe is Copelatus, which has about 470 described species found worldwide, but most diverse in tropical South America, Africa and South-East Asia.

Genera accepted within the tribe:

References

  1. "Copelatinae". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands.
  2. Balke, Michael; Ribera, Ignacio; Vogler, Alfried (2004). "MtDNA phylogeny and biogeography of Copelatinae, a highly diverse group of tropical diving beetles (Dytiscidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 32 (3): 866–880. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.03.014. PMID 15288062. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  3. "Copelatini". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands.
Taxon identifiers
Copelatinae


Stub icon

This Dytiscidae-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: