WoRMS taxon details

Pachyphaleria capensis Laporte de Castelnau, 1840

717054  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:717054)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Allotriocarida (Superclass)
  6. Hexapoda (Class)
  7. Insecta (Subclass)
  8. Pterygota (Infraclass)
  9. Coleoptera (Order)
  10. Tenebrionidae (Family)
  11. Pachyphaleria (Genus)
  12. Pachyphaleria capensis (Species)
accepted
Species
marine
Not documented
WoRMS (2025). Pachyphaleria capensis Laporte de Castelnau, 1840. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=717054 on 2025-06-10
Date
action
by
2013-02-02 10:54:22Z
created
Decock, Wim
2013-02-12 18:00:16Z
checked
Cheng, Lanna

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Nomenclature

basis of record Costa, G., M. E. Leonardi, and A. Petralia. 1988. Day-time spatial orientation of Pachyphaleria capensis (Laporte), an endemic tenebrionid beetle of the South West African coast. Madoqua 15:169-174. [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Habitat feeding on washed up kelp [details]
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English kelp beetlebeach ground beetle  [details]
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