Geotrupidae

Family of beetles

Geotrupidae
Geotrupes egeriei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea
Family: Geotrupidae
Latreille, 1802
Genera

25, see text

Anoplotrupes stercorosus

Geotrupidae (from Greek γῆ (gē), earth, and τρῡπητής (trȳpētēs), borer) is a family of beetles in the order Coleoptera. They are commonly called earth-boring dung beetles or dor beetles.[1] Most excavate burrows in which to lay their eggs. They are typically detritivores, provisioning their nests with leaf litter (often moldy), but are occasionally coprophagous, similar to dung beetles. The eggs are laid in or upon the provision mass and buried, and the developing larvae feed upon the provisions. The burrows of some species can exceed 2 metres in depth.

A few species communicate by stridulation (rubbing body parts together to make sounds).

Classification

They were originally [when?] classified as the subfamily Geotrupinae in the family Scarabaeidae before being elevated to a family. Traditionally the family Bolboceratidae was included (as the subfamily Bolboceratinae) on the basis of the number of antenna segments, but examination of a different set of characteristics prompted Scholtz & Browne (1995) to elevate Bolboceratidae to a family, a result supported by recent phylogenetic research.[2]

The family has more than 600 species in about 30 genera in two subfamilies; recent [when?] phylogenetic studies indicate that Taurocerastinae is not related to Geotrupinae, and is instead more closely related to Lucanidae and Diphyllostomatidae.[2]

References

  1. ^ Geotrupidae - Dor beetles (at NatureSpot)
  2. ^ a b MCKENNA, D. D., WILD, A. L., KANDA, K., BELLAMY, C. L., BEUTEL, R. G., CATERINO, M. S., FARNUM, C. W., HAWKS, D. C., IVIE, M. A., JAMESON, M. L., LESCHEN, R. A. B., MARVALDI, A. E., MCHUGH, J. V., NEWTON, A. F., ROBERTSON, J. A., THAYER, M. K., WHITING, M. F., LAWRENCE, J. F., ŚLIPIŃSKI, A., MADDISON, D. R. and FARRELL, B. D. (2015), The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end-Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution. Syst Entomol, 40: 835–880. doi:10.1111/syen.12132

External links

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  • D. Jonathan Browne and Clarke H. Scholtz, Bolboceratidae, from the Tree of Life
  • Key to the British species of family Geotrupidae
  • Video of Geotrupes from Hungary
  • UNL. Geotrupidae
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Extant Coleoptera families
Suborder Archostemata
  • Crowsoniellidae (Crowsoniella relicta)
  • Cupedidae (reticulated beetles)
  • Jurodidae (Sikhotealinia zhiltzovae)
  • Micromalthidae (telephone-pole beetle)
  • Ommatidae
Suborder Adephaga
Extant families
  • Amphizoidae (trout-stream beetles)
  • Aspidytidae
  • Carabidae (ground beetles)
  • Cicindelidae (tiger beetles)
  • Dytiscidae (predaceous diving beetles)
  • Gyrinidae (whirligig beetles)
  • Haliplidae (crawling water beetles)
  • Hygrobiidae
  • Meruidae (Meru phyllisae)
  • Noteridae (burrowing water beetles)
  • Trachypachidae (false ground beetles)
Suborder Myxophaga
Suborder Polyphaga
Bostrichiformia
Bostrichoidea
  • Bostrichidae (auger beetles)
  • Dermestidae (skin beetles)
  • Endecatomidae
  • Jacobsoniidae (Jacobson's beetles)
  • Nosodendridae (wounded-tree beetles)
  • Ptiniidae (furniture beetles, death watch beetles, spider beetles)
Derodontoidea
  • Derodontidae (tooth-necked fungus beetles)
Cucujiformia
Chrysomeloidea
Cleroidea
Coccinelloidea
Cucujoidea
Curculionoidea
(weevils)
  • Anthribidae (fungus weevils)
  • Attelabidae (leaf-rolling weevils)
  • Belidae (primitive weevils)
  • Brentidae (straight snout weevils, New York weevil)
  • Caridae
  • Curculionidae (true weevils, bark beetles, ambrosia beetles)
  • Nemonychidae (pine flower weevils)
Lymexyloidea
  • Lymexylidae (ship-timber beetles)
Tenebrionoidea
  • Aderidae (ant-like leaf beetles)
  • Anthicidae (ant-like flower beetles)
  • Archeocrypticidae (cryptic fungus beetles)
  • Boridae (conifer bark beetles)
  • Chalcodryidae
  • Ciidae (minute tree-fungus beetles)
  • Melandryidae (false darkling beetles)
  • Meloidae (blister beetles)
  • Mordellidae (tumbling flower beetles)
  • Mycetophagidae (hairy fungus beetles)
  • Mycteridae (palm and flower beetles)
  • Oedemeridae (false blister beetle)
  • Perimylopidae, or Promecheilidae
  • Prostomidae (jugular-horned beetles)
  • Pterogeniidae
  • Pyrochroidae (fire-coloured beetles)
  • Pythidae (dead log bark beetles)
  • Ripiphoridae (wedge-shaped beetles)
  • Salpingidae (narrow-waisted bark beetles)
  • Scraptiidae (false flower beetles)
  • Stenotrachelidae (false longhorn beetles)
  • Synchroidae (synchroa bark beetles)
  • Tenebrionidae (darkling beetles)
  • Tetratomidae (polypore fungus beetles)
  • Trictenotomidae
  • Ulodidae
  • Zopheridae (ironclad beetles, cylindrical bark beetles)
Elateriformia
Buprestoidea
  • Buprestidae (jewel beetles, or metallic wood-boring beetles)
  • Schizopodidae
Byrrhoidea
  • Byrrhidae (pill beetles)
  • Callirhipidae (cedar beetles)
  • Chelonariidae (turtle beetles)
  • Cneoglossidae
  • Dryopidae (long-toed water beetles)
  • Elmidae (riffle beetles)
  • Eulichadidae (forest stream beetles)
  • Heteroceridae (variegated mud-loving beetles)
  • Limnichidae (minute mud beetles)
  • Lutrochidae (travertine beetles)
  • Psephenidae (water-penny beetles)
  • Ptilodactylidae
Dascilloidea
  • Dascillidae (soft bodied plant beetles)
  • Rhipiceridae (cicada beetle, cicada parasite beetles)
Elateroidea
  • Artematopodidae (soft-bodied plant beetles)
  • Brachypsectridae (Texas beetles)
  • Cantharidae (soldier beetles)
  • Cerophytidae (rare click beetles)
  • Elateridae (click beetles)
  • Eucnemidae (false click beetles)
  • Jurasaidae
  • Lampyridae (fireflies)
  • Lycidae (net-winged beetles)
  • Omethidae (false fireflies, long-lipped beetles)
  • Phengodidae (glowworm beetles)
  • Rhagophthalmidae
  • Sinopyrophoridae
  • Throscidae (false metallic wood-boring beetles)
Rhinorhipoidea
  • Rhinorhipidae (Rhinorhipus tamborinensis)
Scirtoidea
Scarabaeiformia
Scarabaeoidea
  • Belohinidae (Belohina inexpectata)
  • Bolboceratidae
  • Diphyllostomatidae (false stag beetles)
  • Geotrupidae (dor beetles)
  • Glaphyridae (bumble bee scarab beetles)
  • Glaresidae (enigmatic scarab beetles)
  • Hybosoridae (scavenger scarab beetles)
  • Lucanidae (stag beetles)
  • Ochodaeidae (sand-loving scarab beetles)
  • Passalidae (betsy beetles)
  • Pleocomidae (rain beetles)
  • Scarabaeidae (scarabs)
  • Trogidae (hide beetles)
Staphyliniformia
Histeroidea
  • Histeridae (clown beetles)
  • Sphaeritidae (false clown beetles)
  • Synteliidae
Hydrophiloidea
Staphylinoidea
  • Agyrtidae (primitive carrion beetles)
  • Hydraenidae
  • Leiodidae (round fungus beetles)
  • Ptiliidae (feather-winged beetles)
  • Silphidae (carrion beetles)
  • Staphylinidae (rove beetles)
Taxon identifiers
Geotrupidae
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