''Silphini'' is a tribe of
carrion beetles in the subfamily
Silphinae
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:
Tribes and genera
* Necrodini Portevin, 1926
** ''Dia ...
. It contains the following genera:
* ''
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 se ...
'' Reitter, 1884
* ''
Aclypea'' Reitter, 1884
* ''
Dendroxena'' Motschulsky, 1858
* ''
Heterosilpha'' Portevin, 1926
* ''
Heterotemna
''Heterotemna'' is a genus of carrion beetles in the tribe Silphini
''Silphini'' is a tribe of carrion beetles in the subfamily Silphinae. It contains the following genera:
* ''Ablattaria'' Reitter, 1884
* '' Aclypea'' Reitter, 1884
* ' ...
'' Wollaston, 1864
* ''
Necrophila'' 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 hav ...
'' Gistel, 1848
* ''
Phosphuga'' Leach, 1817
* ''
Ptomaphila
''Ptomaphila'' is a genus of carrion beetles in the tribe Silphini
''Silphini'' is a tribe of carrion beetles in the subfamily Silphinae. It contains the following genera:
* ''Ablattaria'' Reitter, 1884
* '' Aclypea'' Reitter, 1884
* '' ...
'' Kirby & Spence, 1828
* ''
Silpha
''Silpha'' is a genus of the family Silphidae, or carrion beetles, native to the Old World, with one species that is adventive in Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the At ...
'' Linnaeus, 1758
* ''
Thanatophilus'' Leach, 1815
* ''
Allopliosilpha'' Gersdorf, 1969
* ''
Pliosilpha
''Pliosilpha strausi'' is an extinct species of 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
Genus ( plural genera ) is a ...
'' Gersdorf, 1970
References
Silphidae
Beetle tribes
Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille
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