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Geotrupinae is a subfamily of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family 
Geotrupidae
Geotrupidae (from Greek γῆ ''(gē)'', earth, and τρῡπητής ''(trȳpētēs)'', borer) is a family of beetles in the order Coleoptera. They are commonly called earth-boring dung beetles or dor beetles. Most excavate burrows in which t ...
. 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
Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (; 13 October 1771 – 18 October 1853) was a Saxon anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist.
Fischer was born as Gotthilf Fischer in Waldheim, Saxony, the son of a linen weaver. He studied medicine at Le ...
, 1823
* '' Ceratotrupes'' Jekel, 1865
* '' Chelotrupes'' Jekel, 1866
* '' Cnemotrupes'' Jekel, 1866
* '' Enoplotrupes'' Lucas, 1869
* '' Epigeotrupes'' Bovo & Zunino, 1983
* '' Geohowdenius'' Zunino, 1984
* ''Geotrupes
''Geotrupes'' (from Greek 'earth-boring') is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are at least 30 described species in ''Geotrupes''.
Species
These 31 species belong to the genus ''Geotrupes'':
* '' Geotrupe ...
'' Latreille, 1796
* '' Geotrupoides'' Handlirsch, 1906
* '' Glyptogeotrupes'' Nikolaev, 1979
* '' Halffterius'' Zunino, 1984
* '' Haplogeotrupes'' Nikolaev, 1979
* '' Jekelius'' Lopez-Colon, 1989
* '' Lethrus'' Scopoli
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was an Italian physician and naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Au ...
, 1777
* '' Megatrupes'' Zunino, 1984
* '' Mycotrupes'' LeConte, 1866
* '' Odontotrypes'' Fairmaire, 1887
* '' Onthotrupes'' Howden, 1964
* '' Peltotrupes'' Blanchard
Blanchard is a French family name. It is also used as a given name. It derives from the Old French word ''blanchart'' which meant "whitish, bordering upon white". It is also an obsolete term for a white horse.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, ...
, 1888
* '' Phelotrupes'' Jekel, 1866
* '' Pseudotrypocopris'' Mikšic, 1954
* '' Sericotrupes'' Zunino, 1984
* '' Thorectes'' Mulsant, 1842
* '' Trypocopris'' Motschulsky
Victor Ivanovich Motschulsky, sometimes Victor von Motschulsky (Russian: Виктор Иванович Мочульский; 11 April 1810, St. Petersburg – 5 June 1871, Simferopol) was a Russian entomologist mainly interested in beetles.
Mo ...
, 1859
* '' Typhaeus'' Leach, 1815
* '' Zuninoeus'' López-Colón, 1989
* † '' Cretogeotrupes'' Nikolajev, 1992
* † '' Lithogeotrupes'' Nikolajev, 2008
* † '' Parageotrupes'' Nikolajev & Ren, 2010
References
Further reading
* * * *External links
* * Geotrupidae {{Geotrupidae-stub