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family

earth-boring dung beetles
Geotrupidae Latreille, 1802

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Arthropoda - arthropods »  class Insecta - insects »  order Coleoptera - beetles »  superfamily Scarabaeoidea

Other names

= earth-boring scarab beetles

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Temporal range:Cretaceous > Lower Cretaceous – recent
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Trypocopris fulgidus

Lethrus apterus

Bolbelasmus unicornis

Functions restricted to taxon Geotrupidae

Included taxa

Number of records: 4

subfamily Bolboceratinae Mulsant, 1842
Cretaceous: Lower Cretaceous – recent
subfamily Geotrupinae Latreille, 1802
subfamily Lethrinae Mulsant & Rey, 1871
subfamily Taurocerastinae Germain, 1897

Links and literature

EN Wikipedia Articles [Geotrupidae]

Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org]
EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [101724]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Geotrupidae Latreille, 1802]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019
CZ Hudec K., Kolibáč J., Laštůvka Z., Peňáz M. a kol. (2007): Příroda České republiky: průvodce faunou, Academia [as Geotrupidae]
EN Bouchard et al. (2011): Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88: 1–972. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 [as Geotrupidae Latreille, 1802]
Data retrieved on: 19 November 2019
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