Aplothorax

{{short description|Genus and species of beetles}}

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| image = Aplothorax burchelli.jpg

| genus = Aplothorax

| parent_authority = Waterhouse, 1841

| species = burchelli

| authority = Waterhouse, 1841

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Aplothorax burchelli is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae, the only species in the genus Aplothorax.{{Cite web| title=Aplothorax G.R.Waterhouse, 1842 | url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/8KV9Q | website=Catalogue of Life | access-date=2023-04-08 }} It is endemic to the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic. The genus has been found to be nested within Calosoma by phylogenomic analysis.{{Cite journal|last=Sota|first=Teiji|last2=Hori|first2=Michio|last3=Scholtz|first3=Clarke|last4=Karagyan|first4=Gayane|last5=Liang|first5=Hong-Bin|last6=Ikeda|first6=Hiroshi|last7=Takami|first7=Yasuoki|date=2020-08-26|title=The origin of the giant ground beetle Aplothorax burchelli on St Helena Island|url=https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/131/1/50/5879564|journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society|language=en|volume=131|issue=1|pages=50–60|doi=10.1093/biolinnean/blaa093|issn=0024-4066|doi-access=free|hdl=2263/78876|hdl-access=free}}