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Subspecies Geotrupes blackburnii blackburnii

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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)
Subspecies blackburnii (Geotrupes blackburnii blackburnii)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Scarabaeus blackburnii Fabricius 1781:20
Geotrupes conicollis Jekel 1865:591
Geotrupes jekelii Horn 1868:317
Cnemotrupes blackburnii (Fabricius), Zunino 1984:98-101
Size
10-18 mm (1)
Identification
10-18 mm. Dark coppery black to bluish; shiny. Pronotum coarsely punctate laterally and along midline in most specimens. Elytral striae moderately punctate, and sutural striae incomplete to base. See image(s) below for details:
Range
Eastern coastal states from Maine to Florida, west to Ohio. The subspecies G. b. excrementi Say is found west of the Appalachian Mountains to Texas.
Print References
Harpootlian, p. 57, fig. 57--elytral sutures (1)
Dillon and Dillon, p. 524, plate 50 (2)
Works Cited
1.Scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of South Carolina
Phillip J. Harpootlian. 2001. Clemson University Public Service.
2.A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America
Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence. 1961. Row, Peterson, and Company.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 6 April, 2005 - 7:17am
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 3 March, 2008 - 3:41am

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