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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) » Bolboceratinae » Bolbocerastes

Genus Bolbocerastes

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range
Reddish brown dung beetle - Bolbocerastes imperialis Reddish brown dung beetle - Bolbocerastes imperialis Reddish brown dung beetle - Bolbocerastes imperialis Dead Brown Earth-boring Dung Beetle - Bolbocerastes Dead Brown Earth-boring Dung Beetle - Bolbocerastes Bolbocerastes imperialis - male Bolbocerastes imperialis - male Bolbocerastes imperialis - male
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 Bolboceratinae
Genus Bolbocerastes
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Bolbocerastes Cartwright 1953
Numbers
Bolbocerastes imperialis imperialis Cartwright 1953
Bolbocerastes imperialis kansanus Cartwright 1953
Bolbocerastes regalis Cartwright 1953
Bolbocerastes serratus (LeConte 1854) - type
Range
sw US
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 15 August, 2007 - 8:37am
Last updated 16 August, 2007 - 4:10pm

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