Subfamily Geotrupinae 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, Tome Troisième 1-467
Parent taxon: Geotrupidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Krell 2000, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Nikolajev and Ren 2010
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Ceratophyus Cretogeotrupini Geotrupini Lithogeotrupes Parageotrupes
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 (2)
• Cretaceous of China (2), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 19 collections including 21 occurrences