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Species Geotrupes splendidus - Splendid Earth Boring Beetle

School project #2 - Geotrupes splendidus

Spendid Earth-boring Beetle? - Geotrupes splendidus

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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