Copelatus convexus Förster 1891 (predaceous diving beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Alternative combinations: Escheria convexa, Hydrobius convexa

Full reference: B. Förster. 1891. Die Insekten der "Plattigen Steinmergels" von Brunstatt. Abhandlungen zur Geologischen Specialkarte von Elsass-Lothringen, Band 3 1:335-593

Belongs to Copelatus according to M. Fikáček et al. 2011

See also Förster 1891 and Theobald 1937

Sister taxa: Copelatus aphroditae, Copelatus fossilis, Copelatus ponomarenkoi, Copelatus predaveterus, Copelatus stavropolitanus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Brunstatt, horizon d2, which is in an Oligocene lacustrine - large marl in France

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Brunstatt, horizon d2

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