Bolbocerosoma

Genus of beetles

Bolbocerosoma
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]

Bolbocerosoma tumefactum

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

  1. ^ "Bolbocerosoma Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
  2. ^ "Bolbocerosoma Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-02.

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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