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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) » Bolboceratinae » Bolbocerosoma

Genus Bolbocerosoma

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited
Orange Beetle - Bolbocerosoma confusum Illinois data point - Bolbocerosoma farctum Tomentose Burying Beetle? - Bolbocerosoma hamatum Scarab? - Bolbocerosoma confusum Bolbocerosoma bruneri Bolbocerosoma? - Bolbocerosoma bruneri BG2096 C1997 - Bolbocerosoma Boring dung beetle - Bolbocerosoma tumefactum
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 Bolbocerosoma
Numbers
12 spp. n. of Mex. (1)
Identification
See Howden (1955, 1964) for keys to spp.
Range
Widely dist. e. of the Rocky Mtns (1)
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.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)
Contributed by Stephen Cresswell on 7 September, 2004 - 1:06pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 7 May, 2009 - 10:50am

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