Peltotrupes
| Peltotrupes | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Geotrupidae |
| Subfamily: | Geotrupinae |
| Genus: | Peltotrupes Blanchard, 1888 |
Peltotrupes is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are at least two described species in Peltotrupes.[1][2][3]
Species
[edit]These two species belong to the genus Peltotrupes:
- Peltotrupes profundus (Howden, 1952) (Florida deepdigger scarab)
- Peltotrupes youngi Howden, 1955 (Young's deepdigger scarab)
References
[edit]- ↑ "Peltotrupes Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ↑ "Peltotrupes". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ↑ "Peltotrupes genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
Further reading
[edit]- 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.