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Bolboceratinae
Bolbocerosoma tumefactum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Bolboceratidae
Subfamily:	Bolboceratinae Mulsant, 1842

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.

Genera

These eight genera belong to the subfamily Bolboceratinae:

• Bolbelasmus Boucomont, 1911
• Bolbocerastes Cartwright, 1953
• Bolbocerosoma Schaeffer, 1906
• Bolborhombus Cartwright, 1953
• Bradycinetulus Cockerell, 1906
• Eucanthus Westwood, 1848
• Neoathyreus Howden and Martínez, 1963
• Odonteus Samouelle, 1819

References

1. ^ "Bolboceratinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
2. "Bolboceratinae subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
3. ^ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
4. "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-03-28.
5. "GBIF". Retrieved 2018-03-28.

Further reading

• Jameson, M.L. (2002). "Family 29: Geotrupidae". In Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J. Howard (eds.). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 23–27. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
• Ratcliffe, Brett; Jameson, Mary Liz. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.
• LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.

External links

• Media related to Bolboceratinae at Wikimedia Commons

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