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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles (Scarabaeoidea) » Earth-Boring Dung Beetles (Geotrupidae) » Geotrupinae » Geotrupes » Eger's Earth Boring Beetle (Geotrupes egeriei)

Species Geotrupes egeriei - Eger's Earth Boring Beetle

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food
Beetle - Geotrupes egeriei scarab? - Geotrupes egeriei Geotrupe egeriei - Geotrupes egeriei
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles)
Family Geotrupidae (Earth-Boring Dung Beetles)
Subfamily Geotrupinae
Genus Geotrupes
Species egeriei (Eger's Earth Boring Beetle)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Geotrupes egeriei Germar 1824:114
Geotrupes lecontei Jekel 1865:592
Geohowdenius egeriei (Germar), Zunino 1984:102-105,153,pl.4
Size
11-20 mm.
Identification
Black with blue or green hue; oval, convex. Pronotum deeply, coarsely punctate laterally. Elytral striae deep, differently colored.
Range
Eastern US
Food
Adults feed on dung, fungi, and decaying vegetable matter. Larva feed on old cow dung.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 9 March, 2005 - 10:59am
Last updated 21 August, 2007 - 12:44pm

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