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Geotrupes opacus Haldeman 1853

  • 1. 33493 " S " Avenue Adel, Iowa 50003
  • 2. 168 Thompson Drive SE Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52403
  • 3. Biology Department, University of Mississippi University, Mississippi 38677

Description

Geotrupes opacus Haldeman, 1853

Putnam 1876; Wickham 1911; Howden 1955a; ISIC; IWUC; ELFC; DAVC; MJPC.

Collection dates: April, September–October.

Specimens were collected from dung and on log.

Specimen label data: Lacey Keosauqua State Park, Van Buren Co., Iowa, 14 October 2005, on log, ELF (ELFC).

County records (Figure 13): Black Hawk, Cedar, Dallas, Henry, Johnson, Linn, Louisa, Pottawattamie, Story, Van Buren, Woodbury.

Notes

Published as part of Freese, Edwin L., Veal, Doug A. & Lago, Paul K., 2020, The Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Iowa: An annotated checklist, pp. 1-83 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (787) on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353792

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Haldeman
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Geotrupidae
Genus
Geotrupes
Species
opacus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Geotrupes opacus Haldeman, 1853 sec. Freese, Veal & Lago, 2020

References

  • Putnam, J. D. 1876. List of Coleoptera found in the vicinity of Davenport, Iowa. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences 1: 169 - 173.
  • Wickham, H. F. 1911. A list of the Coleoptera of Iowa. Bulletin of the State University of Iowa Laboratory of Natural History 6 (2): 1 - 40.
  • Howden, H. F. 1955 a. Biology and taxonomy of North American beetles of the subfamily Geotrupinae with revisions of the genera Bolbocerosoma, Eucanthus, Geotrupes, and Peltotrupes (Scarabaeidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 104 (3342): 151 - 319.