page_title: Bolboceratinae
hierarchical_section_title: Bolboceratinae
caption_attribution_description: English: Specimen of Bolbocerosoma tumefactum (Beauvois), a rarely encountered relative of scarab beetles. This individual was collected in USA: Connecticut: Middlesex County: Killingworth, in a flight intercept trap set among mosses, between mixed woods (red maple, poplar, juniper et al.) and a blueberry patch at edge of a hayfield, 02-Jun to 04-Jul-2002, collector M.K. Oliver, in collection of same.
context_page_description: Bolboceratinae is a subfamily of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are about 8 genera and at least 40 described species in Bolboceratinae.
  Catalogue of Life and GBIF now consider Bolboceratinae to be a family, Bolboceratidae, rather than a subfamily. ITIS currently treats Bolboceratinae as a subfamily of Geotrupidae.
context_section_description: Bolboceratinae is a subfamily of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are about 8 genera and at least 40 described species in Bolboceratinae.
  Catalogue of Life and GBIF now consider Bolboceratinae to be a family, Bolboceratidae, rather than a subfamily. ITIS currently treats Bolboceratinae as a subfamily of Geotrupidae.
caption: Bolbocerosoma tumefactum
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