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Species Geotrupes balyi - Baly's Earth Boring Beetle

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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 Anoplotrupes)
Species balyi (Baly's Earth Boring Beetle)
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 24 March, 2006 - 4:23pm
Last updated 9 June, 2006 - 4:08pm

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