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Geotrupinae is a subfamily of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are more than 30 genera and 450 described species in Geotrupinae. thumb|Geotrupes

Museum specimens

Specimen records
9
Family
Geotrupidae
Collections
TTU, NMMNHS, CMN
Recorded in
United States, Mongolia, Tunisia

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Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Geotrupidae
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taxon name
Geotrupinae
taxon rank
subfamily
Commons category
Geotrupinae
taxon common name
tordivler
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Geotrupinae is a subfamily of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are more than 30 genera and 450 described species in Geotrupinae. thumb|Geotrupes

==Genera== These 31 genera belong to the subfamily Geotrupinae: Allotrypes François, 1904 Anoplotrupes Jekel, 1865 Ceratophyus Fischer von Waldheim, 1823 Ceratotrupes Jekel, 1865 Chelotrupes Jekel, 1866 Cnemotrupes Jekel, 1866 Enoplotrupes Lucas, 1869 Epigeotrupes Bovo & Zunino, 1983 Geohowdenius Zunino, 1984 Geotrupes Latreille, 1796 Geotrupoides Handlirsch, 1906 Glyptogeotrupes Nikolaev, 1979 Halffterius Zunino, 1984 Haplogeotrupes Nikolaev, 1979 Jekelius Lopez-Colon, 1989 Lethrus Scopoli, 1777 Megatrupes Zunino, 1984 Mycotrupes LeConte, 1866 Odontotrypes Fairmaire, 1887 Onthotrupes Howden, 1964 Peltotrupes Blanchard, 1888 Phelotrupes Jekel, 1866 Pseudotrypocopris Mikšic, 1954 Sericotrupes Zunino, 1984 Thorectes Mulsant, 1842 Trypocopris Motschulsky, 1859 Typhaeus Leach, 1815 Zuninoeus López-Colón, 1989 † Cretogeotrupes Nikolajev, 1992 † Lithogeotrupes Nikolajev, 2008 † Parageotrupes Nikolajev & Ren, 2010

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