Species Geotrupes blackburnii - Blackburn's Earth Boring Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Works Cited

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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 Cnemotrupes)

Species blackburnii (Blackburn's Earth Boring Beetle)

Explanation of Names

Geotrupes (Cnemotrupes) blackburnii (Fabricius 1781)

Size

10‒20 mm(1)

Identification

elytral suture illustrated in (1)

Range

e. US (VT‒FL to IL‒TX)(2)

Works Cited

1.	Scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of South Carolina Phillip J. Harpootlian. 2001. Clemson University Public Service.

2.	A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida. Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 6 April, 2005 - 7:17am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 3 October, 2023 - 4:28pm

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