''Nicrophorus germanicus'' is a burying beetle described by

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

in his landmark 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. Males are larger than females and can reach a body length of 27 mm.RAS Zoological institute
St. Petersburg

References

* Silphidae Beetles of North America Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Beetles described in 1758 {{Silphidae-stub