Geotrupes

Geotrupes (from Greek 'earth-boring') is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are at least 30 described species in Geotrupes.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Geotrupes stercorarius

Geotrupes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Geotrupidae
Subfamily:	Geotrupinae
Genus:	Geotrupes Latreille, 1797
Synonyms[1]
Melanotrupes Blanchard, 1888

Species

These 31 species belong to the genus Geotrupes:

• Geotrupes atavus Oustalet, 1874 ^{c g}
• Geotrupes baicalicus Reitter, 1892 ^{c g}
• Geotrupes balyi Jekel, 1865 ^{i g b} (Baly's earth boring beetle)
• Geotrupes blackburnii (Fabricius, 1781) ^{i b} (Blackburn's earth boring beetle)
• Geotrupes cavicollis Bates, 1887 ⁱ
• Geotrupes corinthius Fairmaire, 1886 ^{c g}
• Geotrupes douei Gory, 1841 ^{c g}
• Geotrupes egeriei Germar, 1824 ^{i b} (Eger's earth boring beetle)
• Geotrupes folwarcznyi Cervenka, 2005 ^{c g}
• Geotrupes genestieri Boucomont, 1904 ^{c g}
• Geotrupes germari Heer, 1862 ^{c g}
• Geotrupes hornii Blanchard, 1888 ^{i g b} (Horn's earth boring beetle)
• Geotrupes ibericus Baraud, 1958 ^{c g}
• Geotrupes jakowlewi (Semenov, 1891) ^c
• Geotrupes kashmirensis Sharp, 1878 ^{c g}
• Geotrupes koltzei Reitter, 1892 ^{c g}
• Geotrupes lenardoi Petrovitz, 1973 ^{c g}
• Geotrupes meridionalis (Palisot De Beauvois, 1805) ^{c g}
• Geotrupes messelensis Meunier, 1921 ^{c g}
• Geotrupes mutator (Marsham, 1802) ^{c g}
• Geotrupes olgae Olsoufieff, 1918 ^{c g}
• Geotrupes opacus Haldeman, 1853 ^{i b} (opaque earth boring beetle)
• Geotrupes rottensis Statz, 1952 ^{c g}
• Geotrupes semiopacus Jekel, 1865 ^{i b}
• Geotrupes spiniger (Marsham, 1802) ^{c g}
• Geotrupes splendidulus (Fabricius, 1775) ^{i g}
• Geotrupes splendidus ^{g b} (splendid earth boring beetle)
• Geotrupes stercorarius (Linnaeus, 1758) ^{i c g b} (dor beetle)
• Geotrupes thoracinus (Palisot De Beauvois, 1805) ^{c g}
• Geotrupes ulkei Blanchard, 1888 ^{i g b} (Ulke's earth boring beetle)
• Geotrupes vetustus Germar, 1837 ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS,^[1] c = Catalogue of Life,^[2] g = GBIF,^[3] b = Bugguide.net^[4]