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Family: Microsporidae
Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Ecdysozoa > Panarthropoda > Tritocerebra > Arthopoda > Mandibulata > Atelocerata > Panhexapoda > Hexapoda
> Insecta
(insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota > Metapterygota > Neoptera > Eumetabola >
Holometabola > Coleoptera (beetles)
> Suborder: Myxophaga
Tiny beetles, which are aquatic in the larval stage.
Species in southern Africa
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Microsporus africanus
Recorded from: South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal,
Mpumalanga and Northern Province) and Mozambique. Larvae are aquatic.
Adults are found along shores of pans and rivers, and in forest leaf
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