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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

Subfamily Geotrupinae

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Black Beetle with orange tipped antennas - Geotrupes blackburnii scarab? - Geotrupes egeriei Which Geotrupes? - Geotrupes splendidus Mycotrupes retusus - female Mycotrupes retusus - male Scarab - Geotrupes splendidus Mycotrupes cartwrighti live - Mycotrupes cartwrighti School project #1 - 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
Numbers
4 genera
Geotrupes - 9 species, US, except far western states
Mycotrupes - 5 species, SE US
Peltotrupes - 2 species, Florida endemics
Ceratophyus - single species, C. gopherinus, California endemic
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 9 June, 2005 - 4:35pm
Last updated 18 September, 2008 - 1:38pm

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