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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Earth-Boring Scarab Beetles (Geotrupidae) » Geotrupinae » Geotrupes » subgenus Geohowdenius (Geotrupes subgenus Geohowdenius) » Eger's Earth Boring Beetle (Geotrupes egeriei)

Species Geotrupes egeriei - Eger's Earth Boring Beetle

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food
Scarab Beetle sp.? - Geotrupes egeriei Eger's Earth Boring Beetle - Geotrupes egeriei Eger's Earth Boring Beetle - Geotrupes egeriei Small Scarab - Geotrupes egeriei Splendid Earth Boring Beetle? - Geotrupes egeriei Splendid Earth Boring Beetle? - Geotrupes egeriei Geotrupes - Geotrupes egeriei Geotrupes egeriei
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 Geotrupinae
Genus Geotrupes
No Taxon (subgenus Geohowdenius)
Species egeriei (Eger's Earth Boring Beetle)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Geotrupes egeriei Germar 1824:114
Geotrupes lecontei Jekel 1865:592
Geohowdenius egeriei (Germar), Zunino 1984:102-105,153,pl.4
Size
11-20 mm.
Identification
Black with blue or green hue; oval, convex. Pronotum deeply, coarsely punctate laterally. Elytral striae deep, differently colored.
Range
Eastern US
Food
Adults feed on dung, fungi, and decaying vegetable matter. Larva feed on old cow dung.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 9 March, 2005 - 10:59am
Last updated 21 August, 2007 - 12:44pm

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