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Bolboceratidae (dor beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Bolboceratidae

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).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1842Bolboceratinae Mulsant
1995Bolboceratinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2000Bolboceratidae Krell p. 876
2007Bolboceratidae Nikolajev p. 93
2011Bolboceratinae Bouchard et al.
2017Bolboceratinae Bai and Zhang p. 158
2022Bolboceratidae Cai et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyBolboceratidae(Mulsant 1842)
familyBolboceratidae(Mulsant 1842)

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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G. †Amberathyreus Bai and Zhang 2017
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Amberathyreus beuteli Bai and Zhang 2017
Subfm. Bolboceratinae Mulsant 1842
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Invalid names: Bolboceratini Mulsant 1842 [invalid subgroup]
G. †Cretobolbus Nikolajev 1996
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Cretobolbus rohdendorfi Nikolajev 1996
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available