Mycotrupes

Mycotrupes is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are at least 5 described species in Mycotrupes.^[1][2]

Mycotrupes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Superfamily:	Scarabaeoidea
Family:	Geotrupidae
Subfamily:	Geotrupinae
Genus:	Mycotrupes

Species

• Mycotrupes cartwrighti Olson & Hubbell, 1954
• Mycotrupes gaigei Olson & Hubbell, 1954 (North peninsular mycotrupes beetle)
• Mycotrupes lethroides (Westwood, 1837)
• Mycotrupes pedester Howden, 1954
• Mycotrupes retusus (LeConte, 1866) (sandhills earth boring scarab beetle)

References

1. "Mycotrupes Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
2. "Mycotrupes Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
• Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.