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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)
COLEOPTERA
(beetles)
POLYPHAGA
(mainly terrestrial beetles)
Scarabaeiformia
SCARABAEOIDEA
(scarabs, dung and stag beetles)
GEOTRUPIDAE
(dumbledor beetles)
Geotrupes
(dumbledors)
Geotrupes
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Geotrupes (dumbledors)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #macrophotos
Species Geotrupes spiniger (Marsham, 1802) (a dumbledor) 1  
Species Geotrupes stercorarius (L., 1758) (Dor Beetle, Dumble Dor, Clock, Lousy Watchman)   4
Species Geotrupes stercorosus (Scriba, 1791) (a dumbledor) 17 5
Species Geotrupes vernalis (L., 1758) (Spring Dumbledor) 22 13

Suggested Literature

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 general literature references to Geotrupes (dumbledors)

Geotrupes may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 COLEOPTERA
(beetles)		 SCARABAEOIDEA
(scarabs, dung and stag beetles)		 GEOTRUPIDAE
(dumbledor beetles)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 14 feeding and other relationships of Geotrupes (dumbledors)

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