Geotrupinae is a subfamily of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are more than 30 genera and 450 described species in Geotrupinae.[1][2][3]
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| Ceratophyus hoffmannseggi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Geotrupidae |
| Subfamily: | Geotrupinae Latreille, 1802 |
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Genera edit
These 31 genera belong to the subfamily Geotrupinae:
- Allotrypes François, 1904
- Anoplotrupes Jekel, 1865
- Ceratophyus Fischer von Waldheim, 1823
- Ceratotrupes Jekel, 1865
- Chelotrupes Jekel, 1866
- Cnemotrupes Jekel, 1866
- Enoplotrupes Lucas, 1869
- Epigeotrupes Bovo & Zunino, 1983
- Geohowdenius Zunino, 1984
- Geotrupes Latreille, 1796
- Geotrupoides Handlirsch, 1906
- Glyptogeotrupes Nikolaev, 1979
- Halffterius Zunino, 1984
- Haplogeotrupes Nikolaev, 1979
- Jekelius Lopez-Colon, 1989
- Lethrus Scopoli, 1777
- Megatrupes Zunino, 1984
- Mycotrupes LeConte, 1866
- Odontotrypes Fairmaire, 1887
- Onthotrupes Howden, 1964
- Peltotrupes Blanchard, 1888
- Phelotrupes Jekel, 1866
- Pseudotrypocopris Mikšic, 1954
- Sericotrupes Zunino, 1984
- Thorectes Mulsant, 1842
- Trypocopris Motschulsky, 1859
- Typhaeus Leach, 1815
- Zuninoeus López-Colón, 1989
- † Cretogeotrupes Nikolajev, 1992
- † Lithogeotrupes Nikolajev, 2008
- † Parageotrupes Nikolajev & Ren, 2010
References edit
- ^ a b "Geotrupinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- ^ "Geotrupinae subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- ^ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
Further reading edit
- Jameson, M.L. (2002). "Family 29: Geotrupidae". In Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J. Howard (eds.). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 23–27. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.
- Ratcliffe, Brett; Jameson, Mary Liz. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
External links edit
Media related to Geotrupinae at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Geotrupinae at Wikispecies
