Bolbocerosoma
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''Bolbocerosoma'' (sometimes misspelled as ''Bolbocerasoma'') is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family
Bolboceratidae Bolboceratidae is a family of beetle. It was historically treated as a subfamily of the earth-boring dung beetles, or "dor beetles" (family Geotrupidae), but has been considered a separate family by many authors since 1995. Some recent classific ...
. There are about 13 described species in ''Bolbocerosoma''.


Species

* '' Bolbocerosoma biplagiatum'' Dawson and McColloch, 1924 * '' Bolbocerosoma bruneri'' Dawson & Mccolloch, 1924 * '' Bolbocerosoma cartwrighti'' Howden, 1955 * '' Bolbocerosoma confusum'' Brown, 1928 * '' Bolbocerosoma elongatum'' Howden, 1955 * '' Bolbocerosoma farctum'' (Fabricius, 1775) (fancy dung beetle) * '' Bolbocerosoma hamatum'' Brown, 1929 * '' Bolbocerosoma lepidissimum'' Brown, 1928 * '' Bolbocerosoma mexicanum'' Howden, 2005 * '' Bolbocerosoma pusillum'' Dawson & Mccolloch, 1924 * '' Bolbocerosoma quadricornum'' Robinson, 1941 * '' Bolbocerosoma ritcheri'' Howden, 1955 * '' Bolbocerosoma tumefactum'' (Palisot de Beauvois, 1809)


References


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. * Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press. * Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company. {{taxonbar, from=Q14889974 Bolboceratidae