Mycotrupes is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are at least 5 described species in Mycotrupes.
Species
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Mycotrupes cartwrighti Olson & Hubbell, 1954
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Mycotrupes gaigei Olson & Hubbell, 1954 (North peninsular mycotrupes beetle)
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Mycotrupes lethroides (Westwood, 1837)
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Mycotrupes pedester Howden, 1954
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Mycotrupes retusus (LeConte, 1866) (sandhills earth boring scarab beetle)
Further reading
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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.
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Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.