Species Geotrupes blackburnii - Blackburn's Earth Boring Beetle

Classification · Size · Print References · Works Cited

Geotrupes blackburnii excrementi Say - Geotrupes blackburnii

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 blackburnii (Blackburn's Earth Boring Beetle)

Size

10-20 mm (1) (2)

Print References

Harpootlian, p. 57, fig. 57--elytral sutures, subspecies blackburnii (1)

Dillon and Dillon, p. 524, plate 50 (2)

Works Cited

1.	Scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of South Carolina By Phillip J. Harpootlian

2.	A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America By Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 6 April, 2005 - 7:17am
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 28 February, 2008 - 8:00pm

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