Odonteus obesus LeConte, 1859 is a animal in the Geotrupidae family, order Coleoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Odonteus obesus LeConte, 1859

Odonteus obesus is an earth-boring scarab beetle from the Bolboceratidae family found in North America.

Family

Geotrupidae

Genus

Odonteus

Order

Coleoptera

Class

Insecta

About Odonteus obesus LeConte, 1859

Odonteus obesus (LeConte, 1859) is a species of earth-boring scarab beetle that belongs to the family Bolboceratidae. This species occurs in North America.

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Taxonomy

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Coleoptera › Geotrupidae › Odonteus

More from Geotrupidae

Anoplotrupes stercorosus (Hartmann, 1791)

Phelotrupes auratus (Motschulsky, 1857)

Bolbocerosoma confusum Brown, 1928

Bolbocerosoma bruneri Dawson & Mccolloch, 1924

Typhaeus typhoeus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Bolbocerosoma farctum (Fabricius, 1775)

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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