Clickable Guide

Interactive image map to choose major taxa

Calendar

Upcoming Events

National Moth Week was July 19-27, and the Summer 2025 gathering in Louisiana, July 19-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scavenger Scarab Beetles (Hybosoridae) » Scavenger Scarab Beetles (Hybosorinae) » Hybosorus » Hybosorus illigeri

Species Hybosorus illigeri

Scavenger Scarab Beetle - Hybosorus illigeri

Hybosorus illigeri? - Hybosorus illigeri

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 Hybosorinae (Scavenger Scarab Beetles)

Genus Hybosorus

Species illigeri (Hybosorus illigeri)

Other Common Names

Illiger's Scavenger Scarab

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hybosorus carolinus LeConte 1848 • Hybosorus roei Westwood 1845 • Proposed name conservation

Explanation of Names

Hybosorus illigeri Reiche 1853

Size

7‒9 mm(1)

Identification

Antenna distinctive with a 3-segmented club in which the basal club segments is hollowed out to receive the last two segments(2)

Range

adventive across s. US (VA‒FL to KS‒CA) - Map (1)(3)(4), native to, and widespread in the Old World (so. Europe to India & most of Africa)

Habitat

reported from turf in golf courses(2); common at lights

Food

Adults feed on both invertebrate and vertebrate carrion in early stages of decomposition(2)

Life Cycle

Larva described in (5)

Remarks

introduced from Europe prior to the 1840's(2)

Print References

Ocampo F.C. (2002) Hybosorids of the United States and expanding distribution of the introduced species Hybosorus illigeri (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Hybosoridae). Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 95: 316‒322. (Full text)

Works Cited

1.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

2.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

3.	The Scarab Beetles of Florida Robert Woodruff. 1973. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

5.	Larvae of Ceratocanthidae and Hybosoridae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea): study of morphology, phylogenetic analysis... Grebennikov V.V., Ballerio A., Ocampo F.C., Scholtz C.H. 2004. Systematic Entomology 29: 524–543.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 20 November, 2006 - 5:19am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, margarethe brummermann, v belov
Last updated 28 May, 2025 - 11:41am

Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office.

Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content.
Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information.
Everything else copyright © 2003-2025 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted.

Bugguide is hosted by:

Printer Friendly Version