GEOTRUPIDAE Latreille, 1802
(dumbledor beetles)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Anoplotrupes stercorosus a dumbledor	Species		25 images
Geotrupes dumbledors	Genus	2 subtaxa	5 images
Trypocopris vernalis Spring Dumbledor	Species		35 images
Typhaeus typhoeus Minotaur Beetle	Species		32 images	1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	GEOTRUPIDAE (dumbledor beetles)
Superfamily	SCARABAEOIDEA (scarabs, dung and stag beetles)
Series	Scarabaeiformia (scarabs, dung and stag beetles)
Suborder	POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
Order	COLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

GEOTRUPIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Hackston, M.	2009	Geotrupidae key to British species	http://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeys/
in the field()	Team DUMP		Dung beetle UK mapping project	dungbeetlemap.wordpress.com/

GEOTRUPIDAE (dumbledor beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

SCARABAEOIDEA
(scarabs, dung and stag beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for GEOTRUPIDAE (dumbledor beetles)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 26 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for GEOTRUPIDAE (dumbledor beetles)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

GEOTRUPIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)