Silphini is a tribe of
carrion beetles in the subfamily
Silphinae
Silphinae is a subfamily of 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
** '' Diamesus'' Hope, 184 ...
. It contains the following genera:
* ''
Ablattaria'' Reitter, 1884
* ''
Aclypea'' Reitter, 1884
* ''
Dendroxena'' Motschulsky, 1858
* ''
Heterosilpha'' Portevin, 1926
* ''
Heterotemna
''Heterotemna'' is a genus of carrion beetles in the tribe Silphini. Species in this genus are native to the Canary Islands
The Canary Islands (; ) or Canaries are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and the southernmost Autonomous c ...
'' 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''
* ''Necrophila andrewesi''
* ''Necrophila brunnicollis''
* ...
'' Kirby & Spence, 1828
* ''
Oiceoptoma
''Oiceoptoma'' is a genus of carrion beetles.
Species
* '' Oiceoptoma hypocritum''
* '' Oiceoptoma inaequale''
* '' Oiceoptoma nakabayashii''
* '' Oiceoptoma nigropunctatum''
* '' Oiceoptoma noveboracense''
* '' Oiceoptoma picescens''
* '' Oiceo ...
'' Leach, 1815
* ''
Oxelytrum'' 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
S ...
'' Kirby & Spence, 1828
* ''
Silpha'' Linnaeus, 1758
* ''
Thanatophilus'' Leach, 1815
* ''
Allopliosilpha'' Gersdorf, 1969
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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 (; : genera ) is a taxo ...
'' Gersdorf, 1970
References
Silphidae
Beetle tribes
Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille
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