''Oxelytrum cayennense'' is a species of burying beetles or carrion beetles belonging to the family
Silphidae
Silphidae is a family of beetles that are known commonly as large carrion beetles, carrion beetles or burying beetles. There are two subfamilies: Silphinae and Nicrophorinae. Nicrophorines are sometimes known as sexton beetles. The number of sp ...
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Description
''Oxelytrum cayennense'' can reach a length of about . They have three ridges on each elytron, without hairs on the pronotal disk and without a tooth or only with a small protuberance in the humeral region of the elytra. Elytra are black, with pointed apices. Head has prominent eyes and antennae with a 3-segmented antennal club. Pronotum usually shows a uniform orange-red or yellow color, but often a dark maculae, almost rounded or a little quadrangular-shaped, occupies the center of the pronotal disk.
[Steward B. Peck, Robert S. Anderso]
Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the carrion beetles of Latin America
Questiones Entomologicaes 21.247-317 1985[Lúcia M. Almeida; Kleber M. Mis]
Diagnosis and key of the main families and species of South American Coleoptera of forensic importance
Rev. Bras. entomol. vol.53 no.2 São Paulo June 2009
These carrion beetles are nocturnal. They are commonly associated with decomposing carcasses of animals. Adults feed both on soft tissues of carcasses and on larvae and eggs of flies, while the larvae are strictly scavengers.
[Kleber Makoto Mise, Alex Sandro Barros de SouzaII; Claudimir de Menezes Campos; Ruth Leila Ferreira Keppler; Lúcia Massutti de Almeid]
Coleoptera associated with pig carcass exposed in a forest reserve, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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Parâmetros biológicos e métodos de diferenciação de espécies e ínstares de Coleoptera de interesse forense
Departamento de Zoologia, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Distribution and habitat
This species is present in most of northern and central South America (Bolivia
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, Brazil
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, Colombia
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, Ecuador
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, French Guiana
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, Peru
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, Venezuela
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). It can be found in lower to middle elevation rain forest habitats.[Silphidae de Argentina]
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References
Silphidae
Beetles described in 1826
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