Tribe Geotrupini Latreille 1802 (earth-boring dung beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Geotrupidae

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467

Parent taxon: Geotrupinae according to P. G. Allsopp and P. Schoolmeesters 2026

See also Bouchard et al. 2011 and Statz 1952

Sister taxa: Cretogeotrupini, Enoplotrupini, Lethrini

Subtaxa: Ceratophyus Geotrupes Parageotrupes

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Type: Geotrupes

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Japan (5 collections), the United Kingdom (1)

• Miocene of China (1), Germany (1), Greece (1)

• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (2)

• Eocene of Germany (1)

• Cretaceous of China (1)

Total: 15 collections including 17 occurrences

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