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Capelatus prykei
Capelatus is a monotypic genus of diving beetle found on the Cape Peninsula, close to Cape Town, South Africa.
The beetle's sole accepted species, Capelatus prykei, has no close relatives in Africa south of the Sahara, instead being related to beetles found in the Palaearctic and Australasia.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 655391.