Mycotrupes Retusus

''Mycotrupes retusus'' is a species in the family Geotrupidae ("earth-boring scarab beetles"), in the order Coleoptera ("beetles"). The species is known generally as the "sandhills earth boring scarab beetle".
It is found in North America.

References

Further reading

* Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). ''American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
* Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.
* Ross H. Arnett. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press.

Geotrupidae
Beetles described in 1866

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