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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 » Splendid Earth Boring Beetle (Geotrupes splendidus)

Species Geotrupes splendidus - Splendid Earth Boring Beetle

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range
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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 splendidus (Splendid Earth Boring Beetle)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Scarabaeus splendidus Fabricius 1775:18
Geotrupes blackburni Beauvois 1805:75
Geotrupes miarophagus Say 1823:210
Geotrupes gilnickii Jekel 1865:608
Geotrupes starki Jekel 1865:609
Geotrupes mixtus Horn 1868:316
Cnemotrupes splendidus (Fabricius), Zunino 1984:98
Identification
13-18 mm. Bright green, purplish black, or sometimes light blue. Pronotum coarsely, unevenly punctate. Elytral striae with distinct punctures.
Range
Eastern United States, west to Arizona and Oklahoma.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 6 April, 2005 - 8:46am
Last updated 9 June, 2006 - 3:27pm

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