Species Geotrupes egeriei - Eger's Earth Boring Beetle

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food

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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