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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scavenger Scarab Beetles (Hybosoridae) » Pill Scarab Beetles (Ceratocanthinae) » Germarostes

Genus Germarostes

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Geotrupidae? - Germarostes aphodioides Pill Scarab Beetle - Germarostes globosus Germarostes globosus Round, dark beetle - Germarostes globosus Round, dark beetle - Germarostes globosus Tiny Black Beetle for ID - Germarostes Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Germarostes aphodioides Germarostes? - Germarostes
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Scarabaeoidea
Family Hybosoridae (Scavenger Scarab Beetles)
Subfamily Ceratocanthinae (Pill Scarab Beetles)
Genus Germarostes
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Acanthocerus MacLeay 1819 nec Palisot de Beauvois 1818
our spp. used to be treated in Cloeotus; as currently defined, Cloeotus is restricted to S.America(1)
Explanation of Names
Germarostes Paulian 1982
Numbers
2 spp. in our area (both in the nominal subgenus), ~70 spp. in 2 subgenera total(1)
Identification
Key to species [adapted from (2)]
Clypeus with numerous transverse incised lines, resembling a fingerprint; eyes emarginate anteriorly with elongate, narrow canthus; body more rounded; lateral elytral margin serrate anteriorly ►G. globosus (Say)

Clypeus with few transverse lines; eyes emarginate anteriorly with short canthus; body more elongate, less convex; lateral elytral margin entire ►G. aphodioides (Illiger)
Range
neotropical group ranging into e.US(1)
Works Cited
1.Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles (by Brett Ratcliffe and Mary Liz Jameson)
2.The Scarab Beetles of Florida
Robert Woodruff. 1973. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 19 November, 2006 - 9:21am
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov, roar
Last updated 23 May, 2024 - 3:05pm

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