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Species Bolbocerosoma elongatum

Bolbocerosoma (Bolbocerosoma) elongatum Howden - Bolbocerosoma elongatum - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Scarabaeoidea

Family Geotrupidae (Earth-Boring Scarab Beetles)

Subfamily Bolboceratinae

Genus Bolbocerosoma

Species elongatum (Bolbocerosoma elongatum)

Explanation of Names

Bolbocerosoma (Bolbocerosoma) elongatum Howden, 1955

Identification

last couplet in Howden (1955)(1)

Body shape elongate; vertex and pronotum at most moderately coarsely punctured; vague circular postmedian elytral spot confined to posterior third of elytron; lateral lobe of male genital capsule about 1.8 times as long as wide

Range

endemic to w. TX (2)

Remarks

Type Locality: Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Brewster Co., Texas.

only one spmn in the TAMUIC (3)

Print References

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

Works Cited

1.	Biology and taxonomy of North American beetles of the subfamily Geotrupinae, with revisions of the genera.... H.F. Howden. 1955. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 104(3342): 151-319, plates 1-18.

2.	An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas. Edward G. Riley & Charles S. Wolfe. 2003. Southwestern Entomologist, Supplement. 37 pp.

3.	Texas A&M University Insect Collection (TAMUIC)

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 2 July, 2016 - 10:44am
Last updated 2 July, 2016 - 4:14pm

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