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Bolboceratidae

  Stout, very strongly convex beetles, yellowish to reddish brown. Usually with conspicuous cephalic and pronotal horns in the male. Adults are attracted to lights at night.     [? Aust. species]     Previously in Geotrupidae.

 

 

Blackburnium angulicornis filename: gvc12541    

 

 

   

References:

Australian Beetles

John F. Lawrence and E.B. Britton

Melbourne University Press, 1994

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