Africophilus nesiotes Guignot, 1951

Ramahandrison, Andriamirado Tahina, Rakouth, Bakolimalala & Manuel, Michael, 2022, The aquatic Adephaga of the Makay, central-western Madagascar, with description of two new diving beetle species (Coleoptera, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Dytiscidae), ZooKeys 1127, pp. 1-60 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1127.85737

publication LSID

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scientific name

Africophilus nesiotes Guignot, 1951
status

 

Africophilus nesiotes Guignot, 1951

Type locality.

Madagascar, Ambalavao region.

Material examined.

5 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀: MAK-5A; 1 ♀: MAK-5B; 1 ♀: MAK-8; 2 ♀♀: MAK-13; 3 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀: MAK-14A; 1 ♀: MAK-26; 1 ♀: MAK-39A; 2 ♂♂: MAK-40A

Distribution.

Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar ( Guignot 1959-1961; Bertrand and Legros 1971; Franciscolo 1994; Bilardo et al. 2020). In Madagascar, widespread.

Habitat in study area

(Fig. 2F, I, N View Figure 2 ). Similar to A. bartolozzii (see above) but more common.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Dytiscidae

Genus

Africophilus