Bolboceratinae
Sign in to saveBolboceratinae 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.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 12
- Family
- Geotrupidae
- Collections
- TTU, CMN
- Recorded in
- United States, Argentina, Burkina Faso
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Geotrupidae
- Image
- Bolboceras armiger.jpg
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- taxon name
- Bolboceratinae
- taxon rank
- subfamily
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- Bolboceratinae
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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.
Catalogue of Life and GBIF now consider Bolboceratinae to be a family, Bolboceratidae, rather than a subfamily. ITIS currently treats Bolboceratinae as a subfamily of Geotrupidae. thumb|upright|Bolbocerosoma tumefactum
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bolboceratinae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.