Bolboceratinae

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Bolboceratinae
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Bolbocerosoma tumefactum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Geotrupidae
Subfamily: Bolboceratinae
Mulsant, 1842

Bolboceratinae is a subfamily of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are about 8 genera and at least 40 described species in Bolboceratinae. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Catalogue of Life [4] and GBIF [5] now consider Bolboceratinae to be a family, Bolboceratidae, rather than a subfamily. ITIS [1] currently treats Bolboceratinae as a subfamily of Geotrupidae.

Bolbocerosoma tumefactum Bolbocerosoma tumefactum (Beauvois).jpg
Bolbocerosoma tumefactum

Genera

These eight genera belong to the subfamily Bolboceratinae: [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Bolboceratinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  2. 1 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.
  3. "Catalogue of Life" . Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  4. "GBIF" . Retrieved 2018-03-28.

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