Bolbocerosoma

Bolbocerosoma
Bolbocerosoma tumefactum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Bolboceratidae
Subfamily:	Bolboceratinae
Genus:	Bolbocerosoma Schaeffer, 1906

Bolbocerosoma (sometimes misspelled as Bolbocerasoma) is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Bolboceratidae. There are about 13 described species in Bolbocerosoma. ^{[1] [2]}

Bolbocerosoma tumefactum

Species

• Bolbocerosoma biplagiatum Dawson and McColloch, 1924
• Bolbocerosoma bruneri Dawson & Mccolloch, 1924
• Bolbocerosoma cartwrighti Howden, 1955
• Bolbocerosoma confusum Brown, 1928
• Bolbocerosoma elongatum Howden, 1955
• Bolbocerosoma farctum (Fabricius, 1775) (fancy dung beetle)
• Bolbocerosoma hamatum Brown, 1929
• Bolbocerosoma lepidissimum Brown, 1928
• Bolbocerosoma mexicanum Howden, 2005
• Bolbocerosoma pusillum Dawson & Mccolloch, 1924
• Bolbocerosoma quadricornum Robinson, 1941
• Bolbocerosoma ritcheri Howden, 1955
• Bolbocerosoma tumefactum (Palisot de Beauvois, 1809)

References

1. "Bolbocerosoma Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
2. "Bolbocerosoma Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-02.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.