Subfamily Copelatinae Van den Branden 1885 (predaceous diving beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Full reference: C. Van den Branden. 1885. Catalogue des coléoptères carnassiers aquatiques (Haliplidae, Amphizoïdae, Pelobiidae et Dytiscidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 29:5-118

Parent taxon: Dytiscidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Nilsson 2001

Sister taxa: Agabinae, Angaragabus, Aubehydrinae, Colymbetinae, Coptotominae, Cretodytes, Cybisterinae, Dytiscinae, Hydroporinae, Laccophilinae, Liadytiscinae, Necticus palustris, Palaeodytes, Sinoporus

Subtaxa: Copelatini Copelatus

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Type: Copelatus

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection), Mexico (3), the Russian Federation (2)

• Oligocene of France (1)

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 8 collections including 11 occurrences

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