''Anoplotrupes'' is a genus of earth-boring
dung beetles
Dung beetles are beetles that feed on feces. Some species of dung beetles can bury dung 250 times their own mass in one night.
Many dung beetles, known as ''rollers'', roll dung into round balls, which are used as a food source or breeding cha ...
belonging to the family
Geotrupidae
Geotrupidae (from Greek γῆ ''(gē)'', earth, and τρῡπητής ''(trȳpētēs)'', borer) is a family of beetles in the order Coleoptera. They are commonly called earth-boring dung beetles or dor beetles. Most excavate burrows in which ...
subfamily
Geotrupinae
Geotrupinae is a subfamily of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are more than 30 genera and 450 described species in Geotrupinae.
Genera
These 31 genera belong to the subfamily Geotrupinae:
* '' Allotrupes'' Françoi ...
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Species
Species within this genus include:
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*'' Anoplotrupes balyi'' (Jekel, 1866)
*'' Anoplotrupes hornii'' (Blanchard, 1888)
*''Anoplotrupes stercorosus
''Anoplotrupes stercorosus'', the dor beetle, is a species of earth-boring dung beetles, dung beetle belonging to the family Geotrupidae, subfamily Geotrupinae.
Varieties
Varieties or forms that have been recognized at times include the follow ...
'' (Hartmann in L.G. Scriba, 1791)
References
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Geotrupidae