Pocket-gopher-associate

Guides

• Catops geomysi

  Catops geomysi is a small carrion beetle in the family Leiodidae, described by Peck & Skelley in 2001. It belongs to the genus Catops, a group of beetles associated with decaying organic matter and small mammal burrows. The species is known from scattered records across the south-central and southeastern United States.

  carrion-beetleLeiodidaesubterraneanpocket-gopher-associate

• Geomyphilus insolitus

  Geomyphilus insolitus is a species of scarab beetle in the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Aphodiinae. The species was described by Brown in 1928. It belongs to a genus associated with pocket gopher (Geomys spp.) burrows, suggesting a commensal or symbiotic relationship with these fossorial rodents. The species is known from multiple states in the central United States.

  ScarabaeidaeAphodiinaedung-beetlepocket-gopher-associateNearcticfossorial-rodent-symbiont