Geotrupinae

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]

Geotrupes

Geotrupinae
Ceratophyus hoffmannseggi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Geotrupidae
Subfamily: Geotrupinae
Latreille, 1802
Tribes
  • Ceratotrupini Zunino, 1984
  • Enoplotrupini Paulian, 1945
  • Geotrupini Latreille, 1802
  • Lethrini Oken, 1843
  • † Cretogeotrupini Nikolajev, 1996
Synonyms[1]
  • Lethrinae Oken, 1843

Genera

These 31 genera belong to the subfamily Geotrupinae:

  • Allotrupes 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
  1. "Geotrupinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  2. 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
  • 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. 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.



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