Genus Bolbocerosoma

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited

Scarab Beetle I believe - Bolbocerosoma hamatum

Illinois data point - Bolbocerosoma farctum

found in minneota garage, beetle? with bobbing head - Bolbocerosoma bruneri

Colorful Dung Beetle - Bolbocerosoma tumefactum

Bolbocerosoma confusum Brown - Bolbocerosoma confusum

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 Scarab Beetles)

Subfamily Bolboceratinae

Genus Bolbocerosoma

Explanation of Names

Bolbocerosoma Schaeffer 1906

derived from Bolboceras (Greek bolbo 'bulb' + ceros 'horn'(1)) by adding Greek soma 'body'

Numbers

12 spp., all in our area(2)(3)

Identification

keys to spp.: Howden 1955, 1964

Range

NA east of the Rocky Mtns (2); e. Asia (Krikken 1979)

Print References

Howden, H.F. 1955. The biology and taxonomy of the North American beetles of the subfamily Geotrupinae with revisions of the genera Bolbocerosoma, Eucanthus, Geotrupes, and Peltotrupes (Scarabaeidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 104: 151-319.

Howden, H.F. 1964. The Geotrupinae of North and Central America. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 39: 1-91.

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms By Donald J. Borror

2.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)

3.	The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska By Brett C. Ratcliffe & M.J. Paulsen

Contributed by Stephen Cresswell on 7 September, 2004 - 1:06pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 23 May, 2012 - 8:45am

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