Nicrophorini
Appearance
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Nicrophorinae Temporal range:
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American burying beetle | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Silphidae |
Subfamily: | Nicrophorinae |
Tribe: | Nicrophorini Kirby, 1837 |
Extant genera | |
Nicrophorini is a tribe of burying beetles or carrion beetles in the subfamily Silphinae.[1] It was formerly treated as subfamily Nicrophorinae within family Silphidae, but this family was found to be nested in family Staphylinidae in phylogenetic analyses and Silphidae was reassigned as a subfamily Staphylinidae.[2]
Genera
[edit]This beetle tribe contains the following genera:[1]
Extant genera
[edit]- Eonecrophorus Kurosawa, 1985
- Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775
- Proscapheus
- Ptomascopus Kraatz, 1876
Extinct genera
[edit]- †Cretosaja Sohn, Jae-Cheon & Gi Soo Nam, 2021
- †Palaeosilpha Flach, 1890
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Nicrophorini Kirby, 1837". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- ^ Sikes, Derek S.; Thayer, Margaret K.; Newton, Alfred F. (2024). "Large carrion and burying beetles evolved from Staphylinidae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Silphinae): A review of the evidence". ZooKeys (1200): 159–182. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1200.122835. PMC 11096728.