Silphinae is a subfamily of
burying beetles or carrion beetles. There are 113 extant species of this subfamily, in two tribe and in 14 genera. It contains the following tribes and genera:
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Tribes and genera
* Necrodini
''Necrodini'' is a tribe of carrion beetles in the subfamily Silphinae. It contains two genera - Necrodes and Diamesus
''Diamesus'' is a genus of rather large carrion beetle
Silphidae is a family of beetles that are known commonly as ...
Portevin, 1926
** ''Diamesus
''Diamesus'' is a genus of rather large carrion beetle
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. Nicrophori ...
'' Hope, 1840
** '' Necrodes'' Leach, 1815
* Silphini
''Silphini'' is a tribe of carrion beetles in the subfamily Silphinae. It contains the following genera:
* ''Ablattaria'' Reitter, 1884
* '' Aclypea'' Reitter, 1884
* '' Dendroxena'' Motschulsky, 1858
* '' Heterosilpha'' Portevin, 1926
* ''He ...
Latreille, 1806
** ''Ablattaria
''Ablattaria'' is a genus of burying beetles or carrion beetles belonging to the family Silphidae. The beetles are predators of gastropods. All species in the genus exhibit sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the s ...
'' Reitter, 1884
** '' Aclypea'' Reitter, 1884
** '' Dendroxena'' Motschulsky, 1858
** '' Heterosilpha'' Portevin, 1926
** ''Heterotemna
''Heterotemna'' is a genus of carrion beetles in the tribe Silphini. It contains the following species:
* Heterotemna britoi Garcia & Perez, 1996
* Heterotemna figurata Brulle, 1839
* Heterotemna tenuicornis Brulle, 1836
References
{{S ...
'' Wollaston, 1864
** ''Necrophila
''Necrophila'' is a genus of carrion beetles, with around 20 species: most found in Asia, and one species in North America, ''Necrophila americana''.
Species
* ''Necrophila americana
The American carrion beetle (''Necrophila americana'',S ...
'' Kirby & Spence, 1828
** ''Oiceoptoma
''Oiceoptoma'' is a genus of carrion beetles.
Species
* '' Oiceoptoma hypocritum''
* '' Oiceoptoma inaequale''
* '' Oiceoptoma nakabayashii''
* '' Oiceoptoma nigropunctatum''
* ''Oiceoptoma noveboracense
''Oiceoptoma noveboracense'' is a memb ...
'' Leach, 1815
** ''Oxelytrum
''Oxelytrum'' is a genus of burying beetles or carrion beetles belonging to the family Silphidae.
Species in this genus have three ridges on each elytron, without hairs on the pronotal disk.
They are usually black with reddish markings and ha ...
'' Gistel, 1848
** '' Phosphuga'' Leach, 1817
** ''Ptomaphila
''Ptomaphila'' is a genus of carrion beetles in the tribe Silphini. It contains the following species:
* Ptomaphila lacrimosa Schreibers, 1802
* Ptomaphila ovata Portevin, 1926
* Ptomaphila perlata Kraatz, 1876
References
{{Silphidae-s ...
'' Kirby & Spence, 1828
** '' Silpha'' Linnaeus, 1758
** '' Thanatophilus'' Leach, 1815
** '' Allopliosilpha'' Gersdorf, 1969
** ''Pliosilpha
''Pliosilpha strausi'' is an extinct species of Silphidae, carrion beetle that lived in Germany during the Middle Pliocene. First described scientifically by Gersdorf in 1971, ''P. strausi'' is the only species in the genus ''Pliosilpha''.
Refere ...
'' Gersdorf, 1970
References
Silphidae
Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille
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