Geotrupes

Genus of beetles

Geotrupes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Geotrupidae
Subfamily: Geotrupinae
Genus: Geotrupes
Latreille, 1797
Synonyms[1]
  • Melanotrupes Blanchard, 1888

Geotrupes (from Greek 'earth-boring') is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are at least 30 described species in Geotrupes.[1][2][3][4][5]

Geotrupes stercorarius

Species

These 31 species belong to the genus Geotrupes:

  • Geotrupes atavus Oustalet, 1874 c g
  • Geotrupes baicalicus Reitter, 1892 c g
  • Geotrupes balyi Jekel, 1865 i g b (Baly's earth boring beetle)
  • Geotrupes blackburnii (Fabricius, 1781) i b (Blackburn's earth boring beetle)
  • Geotrupes cavicollis Bates, 1887 i
  • Geotrupes corinthius Fairmaire, 1886 c g
  • Geotrupes douei Gory, 1841 c g
  • Geotrupes egeriei Germar, 1824 i b (Eger's earth boring beetle)
  • Geotrupes folwarcznyi Cervenka, 2005 c g
  • Geotrupes genestieri Boucomont, 1904 c g
  • Geotrupes germari Heer, 1862 c g
  • Geotrupes hornii Blanchard, 1888 i g b (Horn's earth boring beetle)
  • Geotrupes ibericus Baraud, 1958 c g
  • Geotrupes jakowlewi (Semenov, 1891) c
  • Geotrupes kashmirensis Sharp, 1878 c g
  • Geotrupes koltzei Reitter, 1892 c g
  • Geotrupes lenardoi Petrovitz, 1973 c g
  • Geotrupes meridionalis (Palisot De Beauvois, 1805) c g
  • Geotrupes messelensis Meunier, 1921 c g
  • Geotrupes mutator (Marsham, 1802) c g
  • Geotrupes olgae Olsoufieff, 1918 c g
  • Geotrupes opacus Haldeman, 1853 i b (opaque earth boring beetle)
  • Geotrupes rottensis Statz, 1952 c g
  • Geotrupes semiopacus Jekel, 1865 i b
  • Geotrupes spiniger (Marsham, 1802) c g
  • Geotrupes splendidulus (Fabricius, 1775) i g
  • Geotrupes splendidus g b (splendid earth boring beetle)
  • Geotrupes stercorarius (Linnaeus, 1758) i c g b (dor beetle)
  • Geotrupes thoracinus (Palisot De Beauvois, 1805) c g
  • Geotrupes ulkei Blanchard, 1888 i g b (Ulke's earth boring beetle)
  • Geotrupes vetustus Germar, 1837 c g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Geotrupes Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  2. ^ a b "Browse Geotrupes". Catalogue of Life. Archived from the original on 2022-07-09. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  3. ^ a b "Geotrupes". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  4. ^ a b "Geotrupes Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  5. ^ "Geotrupes Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-12.

Further reading

  • Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
  • Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
  • 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 0665100558.
  • Riley, Edward G.; Wolfe, Charles S. (2003). "An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas" (PDF). Southwestern Entomologist, Supplement.
  • White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

External links

  • Media related to Geotrupes at Wikimedia Commons
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