Geotrupinae

Geotrupinae is a subfamily of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are more than 30 genera and 450 described species in Geotrupinae.^[1][2][3]

Geotrupes

Geotrupinae
Ceratophyus hoffmannseggi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Geotrupidae
Subfamily:	Geotrupinae Latreille, 1802
Tribes
Ceratotrupini Zunino, 1984 Enoplotrupini Paulian, 1945 Geotrupini Latreille, 1802 Lethrini Oken, 1843 † Cretogeotrupini Nikolajev, 1996
Synonyms[1]
Lethrinae Oken, 1843

Genera

These 31 genera belong to the subfamily Geotrupinae:

• Allotrypes François, 1904
• Anoplotrupes Jekel, 1865
• Ceratophyus Fischer von Waldheim, 1823
• Ceratotrupes Jekel, 1865
• Chelotrupes Jekel, 1866
• Cnemotrupes Jekel, 1866
• Enoplotrupes Lucas, 1869
• Epigeotrupes Bovo & Zunino, 1983
• Geohowdenius Zunino, 1984
• Geotrupes Latreille, 1796
• Geotrupoides Handlirsch, 1906
• Glyptogeotrupes Nikolaev, 1979
• Halffterius Zunino, 1984
• Haplogeotrupes Nikolaev, 1979
• Jekelius Lopez-Colon, 1989
• Lethrus Scopoli, 1777
• Megatrupes Zunino, 1984
• Mycotrupes LeConte, 1866
• Odontotrypes Fairmaire, 1887
• Onthotrupes Howden, 1964
• Peltotrupes Blanchard, 1888
• Phelotrupes Jekel, 1866
• Pseudotrypocopris Mikšic, 1954
• Sericotrupes Zunino, 1984
• Thorectes Mulsant, 1842
• Trypocopris Motschulsky, 1859
• Typhaeus Leach, 1815
• Zuninoeus López-Colón, 1989
• † Cretogeotrupes Nikolajev, 1992
• † Lithogeotrupes Nikolajev, 2008
• † Parageotrupes Nikolajev & Ren, 2010