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Pachyphaleria capensis Laporte de Castelnau, 1840 
AphiaID: 717054

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Hexapoda (Subphylum) > Insecta (Class) > Pterygota (Subclass) > Coleoptera (Order) > Tenebrionidae (Family) > Pachyphaleria (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pachyphaleria Gebien, 1920
Source  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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English beach ground beetle  [details]
English kelp beetle  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution South West African Coast [details]
Note  Habitat: feeding on washed up kelp [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:717054
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
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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  Citation: Cheng, L. (2013). Pachyphaleria capensis Laporte de Castelnau, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=717054 on 2013-06-19
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