Subject: Bulbous Earth-Boring Beetle, Bolbocerosoma farctus (farctum)

Location: Albemarle County, Virginia

Stock Number: 4627-05

Comments: A stout-bodied beetle, seldom encountered.

Members of the Earth-Boring Dung Beetles group often spend nearly all of their adult lives in burrows—typically under dung or carrion, which are the larval food sources.

The Earth-Boring Dung Beetles sometimes are said to comprise the family Geotrupidae, while some experts believe Geotrupidae should actually make up subfamily Geotrupinae of the Scarab Beetle family, Scarabaeidae.

Downie & Arnett (1996) list records for this species from these states: CT, NY, NJ, MD, DC, PA, OH, VA, WV, NC, SC, GA, MS, LA, TN, KY.