Bolboceratidae
Sign in to saveBolboceratidae is a family of beetle. It was historically treated as a subfamily of the earth-boring dung beetles, or "dor beetles" (family Geotrupidae), but has been considered a separate family by many authors since 1995. Some recent classifications have persisted in treating bolboceratids as a subfamily (e.g.) but these classifications are contradicted by recent phylogenetic studies of relationships indicating that bolboceratids are not closely related to geotrupids (e.g., that bolboceratids are more closely related to Pleocomidae and Passalidae).
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 129
- Family
- Bolboceratidae
- Collections
- CHAS, AM, WAM
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia
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- Scarabaeoidea
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Bolboceratidae is a family of beetle. It was historically treated as a subfamily of the earth-boring dung beetles, or "dor beetles" (family Geotrupidae), but has been considered a separate family by many authors since 1995. Some recent classifications have persisted in treating bolboceratids as a subfamily (e.g.) but these classifications are contradicted by recent phylogenetic studies of relationships indicating that bolboceratids are not closely related to geotrupids (e.g., that bolboceratids are more closely related to Pleocomidae and Passalidae).
==Genera== Athyreus Australobolbus Blackbolbus Blackburnium Bolbaffer Bolbaffroides Bolbelasmus Bolbobaineus Bolbocaffer Bolbocerastes Bolboceratex Bolboceratops Bolbocerodema Bolboceroides Bolbocerosoma Bolbochromus Bolbogonium Bolbohamatum Bolboleaus Bolborhachium Bolborhinum Bolborhombus Bolbothyreus Bolbotrypes Bradycinetulus Cretobolbus Elephastomus Eubolbitus Eucanthus Gilletinus Halffterobolbus Meridiobolbus Mesoathyreus Mimobolbus Namibiobolbus Namibiotrupes Neoathyreus Odonteus Parabolbapium Parathyreus Pereirabolbus Prototrupes Pseudoathyreus Socotrabolbus Somalobolbus Senaspidius Zefevazia
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bolboceratidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.