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Peltotrupes
Sign in to savePeltotrupes is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are at least two described species in Peltotrupes.
Species
Florida Deep-digger Scarab
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyGeotrupidae
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- Geotrupidae
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Peltotrupes is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are at least two described species in Peltotrupes.
==Species== These two species belong to the genus Peltotrupes: Peltotrupes profundus (Howden, 1952) (Florida deepdigger scarab) Peltotrupes youngi Howden, 1955 (Young's deepdigger scarab)
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