Check List 17(5): 1291-1294, doi: 10.15560/17.5.1291
First record of the diving beetle Copelatus chevrolati Aubé, 1838 in Cuba (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)
expand article infoYoandri S. Megna‡, Michael Balke§, Lars Hendrich|
‡ Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba§ Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munchen, Germany| Zoologische Staatssammlung, Muenchen, Germany

Corresponding author: Lars Hendrich ( hendrich1@aol.com )

Academic editor: Kirill Makarov
© Yoandri S. Megna, Michael Balke, Lars Hendrich.
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Citation: Megna YS, Balke M, Hendrich L (2021) First record of the diving beetle Copelatus chevrolati Aubé, 1838 in Cuba (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae). Check List 17(5): 1291-1294. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.5.1291
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Abstract

We present the first distributional record of Copelatus chevrolati Aubé, 1838 from Cuba. Four specimens were collected in a light trap in August 2016 on the Isla de La Juventud. Ten species of Copelatus are now known from Cuba. We present a modified key to the Cuban species of Copelatus.

Keywords
Aquatic Coleoptera, new record, taxonomy, West Indies