Geotrupes

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

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

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. "Geotrupes Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
2. "Browse Geotrupes". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
3. "Geotrupes". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
4. "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. Pensoft Publishers (88): 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. 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