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Geotrupes semiopacus Jekel 1865

  • 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 semiopacus Jekel, 1865

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

Collection dates: April–September.

Specimens were collected from horse dung.

Specimen label data: Volga River Recreation Area, Fayette Co, Iowa, 22 September 1996 [2], horse dung, ELF (ELFC).

County records (Figure 14): Allamakee, Appanoose, Clayton, Dallas, Fayette, Fremont, Hardin, Henry, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Lee, Linn, Madison, Story, Tama, Webster, Winnebago, Winneshiek.

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
Jekel
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Geotrupidae
Genus
Geotrupes
Species
semiopacus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Geotrupes semiopacus Jekel, 1865 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.