NEW SPECIES DISCOVERED IN MKAMBATI NATURE RESERVE

A new diving beetle named Copelatus Mkambati has been discovered in  the Eastern Cape Parks and Tourism Agency’s Mkambati Nature Reserve. The new species is compared with other Afrotropical taxa with two elytral striae and no submarginal stria (the macellus species group of Copelatus Erichson, 1832). A combination of small eyes, rather weak pigmentation, flattened, sub-parallel habitus, relatively large head, and collecting circumstances all suggest that the new species may be semisubterranean in lifestyle.