Subspecies Geotrupes blackburnii blackburnii

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited

Black Beetle with orange tipped antennas - Geotrupes blackburnii

Blackburn's Earth Boring Beetle (Geotrupes blackburnii) - 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)

Subspecies blackburnii (Geotrupes blackburnii blackburnii)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Scarabaeus blackburnii Fabricius 1781:20

Geotrupes conicollis Jekel 1865:591

Geotrupes jekelii Horn 1868:317

Cnemotrupes blackburnii (Fabricius), Zunino 1984:98-101

Size

10-18 mm (1)

Identification

10-18 mm. Dark coppery black to bluish; shiny. Pronotum coarsely punctate laterally and along midline in most specimens. Elytral striae moderately punctate, and sutural striae incomplete to base. See image(s) below for details:

Range

Eastern coastal states from Maine to Florida, west to Ohio. The subspecies G. b. excrementi Say is found west of the Appalachian Mountains to Texas.

Print References

Harpootlian, p. 57, fig. 57--elytral sutures (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 3 March, 2008 - 3:41am

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