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Bolboceratidae (dor beetle)
Taxonomy
Bolboceratinae was named by Mulsant (1842). It is extant.
It was reranked as the family Bolboceratidae by Krell (2000), Nikolajev (2007) and Cai et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Geotrupidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011) and Bai and Zhang (2017); and to Scarabaeoidea by Krell (2000), Nikolajev (2007) and Cai et al. (2022).
It was reranked as the family Bolboceratidae by Krell (2000), Nikolajev (2007) and Cai et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Geotrupidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011) and Bai and Zhang (2017); and to Scarabaeoidea by Krell (2000), Nikolajev (2007) and Cai et al. (2022).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1842 | Bolboceratinae Mulsant |
1995 | Bolboceratinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr. |
2000 | Bolboceratidae Krell p. 876 |
2007 | Bolboceratidae Nikolajev p. 93 |
2011 | Bolboceratinae Bouchard et al. |
2017 | Bolboceratinae Bai and Zhang p. 158 |
2022 | Bolboceratidae Cai et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Bolboceratidae Mulsant 1842 [dor beetle]
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Subfm. Athyreinae Lynch Arribálzaga 1878
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Subfm. Bolboceratinae Mulsant 1842
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Invalid names: Bolboceratini Mulsant 1842 [invalid subgroup]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available