Bolboceratinae | |
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Bolbocerosoma tumefactum | |
Scientific classification | |
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]
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.
These eight genera belong to the subfamily Bolboceratinae: [3]
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