Insecta - Coleoptera - Geotrupidae
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467
Parent taxon: Geotrupidae according to P. G. Allsopp and P. Schoolmeesters 2026
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Krell 2000, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Nikolajev and Ren 2010
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Cretogeotrupini Enoplotrupini Geotrupini Lethrini
Type: Geotrupes
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (5 collections), the United Kingdom (1)
• Miocene of China (1), Germany (1), Greece (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (2)
• Eocene of Germany (2)
• Cretaceous of China (2), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 20 collections including 22 occurrences