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BugGuide Gathering
Smoky Mountains
University of Tennessee Biological Field Station
August 8-10, 2008
 
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Genus Bolborhombus

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 Bolborhombus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Bolborhombus Cartwright 1953
Numbers
Bolborhombus angulus (Robinson 1947) (Bolboceras) - Mexico, Texas
Bolborhombus parvulus Cartwright 1953 (Bolborhombus) - Mexico, California
Bolborhombus sallaei sallaei (Bates 1887) (Bolboceras) - Mexico, Arizona-Texas, Kansas
=Bradycinetus carinatus Schaeffer 1906
=Bolboceras schaefferi Boucomont 1911
Identification
elytra not margined, pronotum with postapical carina