Geotrupinae Explained
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.
Genera
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
Further reading
- Book: American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. 2002. Jameson . M.L.. Arnett . Ross H. Jr.. Thomas . Michael C.. Skelley . Paul E.. Frank . J. Howard. CRC Press. Family 29: Geotrupidae. 23–27. 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- Book: Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. 1861. LeConte . J. L.. Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. 136. 978-0665100550. 10.5962/bhl.title.38459.
- Book: Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. 2006. Lobl . I.. Smetana . A.. Apollo Books. 978-90-04-30914-2.
- Web site: 2019-06-15. Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles. Ratcliffe. Brett. Jameson. Mary Liz. https://web.archive.org/web/20190330151517/http://www.museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Guide-introduction/Guideintro.html. 30 March 2019. dead.
