Mycotrupes

Mycotrupes is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are at least 5 described species in Mycotrupes.

Species

• Mycotrupes cartwrighti <small>Olson & Hubbell, 1954</small>
• Mycotrupes gaigei <small>Olson & Hubbell, 1954</small> (North peninsular mycotrupes beetle)
• Mycotrupes lethroides <small>(Westwood, 1837)</small>
• Mycotrupes pedester <small>Howden, 1954</small>
• Mycotrupes retusus <small>(LeConte, 1866)</small> (sandhills earth boring scarab beetle)

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.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.