Bolbocerosoma pusillum Dawson and McColloch, 1924

Freese, Edwin L., Veal, Doug A. & Lago, Paul K., 2020, The Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Iowa: An annotated checklist, Insecta Mundi 2020 (787), pp. 1-83 : 5

Bolbocerosoma pusillum Dawson and McColloch, 1924

DAVC; MJPC; ELFC; PKLC.

Collection dates: June–July.

Specimen label data: First two known Iowa specimens and NEW STATE RECORD: Waubonsie State Park , Fremont Co., Iowa, 15 June 2003 [2], under horse dung and under soil pushup ridge top path, DAV, MJP ( DAVC) ; Turin Loess Hills Prairie State Preserve, Monona Co., Iowa, 17 June 2008, under soil pushup path, ELF ( ELFC) .

Specimens were also collected flying, circling low, over path and walking on path; occasionally at UV light. The specimen collected in Monona County represents a range extension north of about 190 km (120 miles) from specimens collected as a new Nebraska state record during 2002 at Indian Cave State Park (M.J. Paulsen, pers. comm., 2003; Ratcliffe and Paulsen 2008) .

County records ( Figure 5 ): Fremont, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie.

Odonteus Samouelle, 1819

Figures

Figures 2–9. Distribution of Scarabaeoidea in Iowa. 2) Odontotaenius disjunctus (Illiger, 1800). 3) Bolbocerosoma bruneri Dawson and McCormick, 1924. 4) Bolbocerosoma confusum Brown, 1928. 5) Bolbocerosoma pusillum Dawson and McCormick, 1924. 6) Odonteus filicornis (Say, 1823). 7) Odonteus liebecki (Wallis, 1928). 8) Odonteus