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Genus Glyptotrox

Trox spinulosus Robinson - Glyptotrox spinulosus Rough, brown beetle caught in a web - Glyptotrox hamatus carrion? beetle - Glyptotrox small hide beetle with many hairy bumps - Glyptotrox Trox hamatus - Glyptotrox hamatus - male Trox paulseni from Crescent Lake NWR, Nebraska - Glyptotrox paulseni Trox - Glyptotrox Glyptotrox (Glyptotrox) foveicollis - Glyptotrox foveicollis - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Scarabaeoidea
Family Trogidae (Hide Beetles)
Subfamily Troginae
Genus Glyptotrox
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
"terrestris group" of Vaurie(1)
Explanation of Names
Glyptotrox Nikolajev 2016
Numbers
6 spp. in our area(1), 36 total(2)
Size
5‒7.5 mm(1)