Bolbocerosoma
Genus of beetles
Bolbocerosoma | |
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Bolbocerosoma tumefactum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Bolboceratidae |
Genus: | Bolbocerosoma Schaeffer, 1906 |
Bolbocerosoma (sometimes misspelled as Bolbocerasoma) is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Bolboceratidae. There are about 13 described species in Bolbocerosoma.[1][2]
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Species
- Bolbocerosoma biplagiatum Dawson and McColloch, 1924
- Bolbocerosoma bruneri Dawson & Mccolloch, 1924
- Bolbocerosoma cartwrighti Howden, 1955
- Bolbocerosoma confusum Brown, 1928
- Bolbocerosoma elongatum Howden, 1955
- Bolbocerosoma farctum (Fabricius, 1775) (fancy dung beetle)
- Bolbocerosoma hamatum Brown, 1929
- Bolbocerosoma lepidissimum Brown, 1928
- Bolbocerosoma mexicanum Howden, 2005
- Bolbocerosoma pusillum Dawson & Mccolloch, 1924
- Bolbocerosoma quadricornum Robinson, 1941
- Bolbocerosoma ritcheri Howden, 1955
- Bolbocerosoma tumefactum (Palisot de Beauvois, 1809)
References
Further reading
- Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
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