Geotrupidae
Geotrupidae | |
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Geotrupes egeriei | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
Superfamily: | Scarabaeoidea |
Family: | Geotrupidae Latreille, 1802 |
Genera | |
25, see text |
Geotrupidae (from
A few species communicate by stridulation (rubbing body parts together to make sounds).
Classification
They were originally [when?] classified as the subfamily Geotrupinae in the family Scarabaeidae before being elevated to a family. Traditionally the family Bolboceratidae was included (as the subfamily Bolboceratinae) on the basis of the number of antenna segments, but examination of a different set of characteristics prompted Scholtz & Browne (1995) to elevate Bolboceratidae to a family, a result supported by recent phylogenetic research.[2]
The family has more than 600 species in about 30 genera in two subfamilies; recent [when?] phylogenetic studies indicate that Taurocerastinae is not related to Geotrupinae, and is instead more closely related to
- Geotrupinae
- Allotrupes Boucomont, 1912
- Jekel, 1866
- Baraudia López-Colón, 1996
- Fischer von Waldheim, 1823
- Jekel, 1865
- Jekel, 1866
- Jekel, 1866
- Cretogeotrupes Nikolajev, 1992
- Enoplotrupes Lucas, 1869
- Geohowdenius Zunino, 1984
- Geotrupes Latreille, 1796
- Halffterius Zunino, 1984
- Haplogeotrupes Nikolaev, 1979
- Jekelius López-Colón, 1989
- Scopoli, 1777
- Megatrupes Zunino, 1984
- Mycotrupes LeConte, 1866
- Fairmaire, 1887
- Onthotrupes Howden, 1964
- Jekel, 1866
- Blanchard, 1888
- Pseudotrypocopris Miksic, 1954
- Sericotrupes Zunino, 1984
- Jekel, 1866
- Mulsant, 1842
- Motschulsky, 1860
- Typhaeus Leach, 1815
- Zuninoeus López-Colón, 1989
- Taurocerastinae
- Frickius Germain, 1897
- Taurocerastes Philippi, 1866
References
- ^ Geotrupidae - Dor beetles (at NatureSpot)
- ^ a b MCKENNA, D. D., WILD, A. L., KANDA, K., BELLAMY, C. L., BEUTEL, R. G., CATERINO, M. S., FARNUM, C. W., HAWKS, D. C., IVIE, M. A., JAMESON, M. L., LESCHEN, R. A. B., MARVALDI, A. E., MCHUGH, J. V., NEWTON, A. F., ROBERTSON, J. A., THAYER, M. K., WHITING, M. F., LAWRENCE, J. F., ŚLIPIŃSKI, A., MADDISON, D. R. and FARRELL, B. D. (2015), The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end-Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution. Syst Entomol, 40: 835–880. doi:10.1111/syen.12132
External links
- D. Jonathan Browne and Clarke H. Scholtz, Bolboceratidae, from the Tree of Life
- Key to the British species of family Geotrupidae[permanent dead link]
- Video of Geotrupes from Hungary
- UNL. Geotrupidae