''Copelatus ambiguus'' is a species of
diving beetle
The Dytiscidae – based on the Greek ''dytikos'' (δυτικός), "able to dive" – are the predaceous diving beetles, a Family (biology), family of water beetles. They occur in virtually any freshwater habitat around the world, but a ...
. It is part of the genus ''
Copelatus
''Copelatus'' is a large genus of small diving beetles. There are some 470 described species in the genus, found worldwide, but they are most diverse in tropical South America, Africa and South-East Asia.
Systematics
The genus ''Copelatus'' i ...
'' in the subfamily
Copelatinae
Copelatinae is a subfamily of diving beetles, in the family Dytiscidae. The subfamily contains seven genera:
'' Agaporomorphus'', ''Aglymbus'', ''Copelatus'', '' Exocelina'', '' Lacconectus'', '' Liopterus'', and '' Madaglymbus''. Of these, th ...
of the family
Dytiscidae. It was described by Bertrand & Legros in 1975.
ITIS Report
Copelatus, 112561. ITIS. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
References
ambiguus
Beetles described in 1975
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