''Copelatus lignosus'' 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

Félix Guignot Félix Guignot was French a physician and entomologist, born 16 November 1882 in Avignon, France. After studying medicine at the University of Montpellier he established a private practice in his hometown of Avignon. He practiced family medicin ...

in 1955.

References

lignosus ''Lignosus'' is a genus of polypore fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was Circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 1920 by mycologists Curtis Gates Lloyd and Camille Torrend, with ''Lignosus sacer, L. sacer'' as the type specie ...

Beetles described in 1955 {{Copelatus-stub