Biology:Nicrophorini
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Nicrophorini is a tribe of burying beetles or carrion beetles in the subfamily Silphinae.[1] It was formerly treated as subfamily Nicrophorinae within family Silphidae, but this family was found to be nested in family Staphylinidae in phylogenetic analyses and Silphidae was reassigned as a subfamily Staphylinidae.[2]
Genera
This beetle tribe contains the following genera:[1]
Extant genera
- Eonecrophorus Kurosawa, 1985
- Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775
- Proscapheus
- Ptomascopus Kraatz, 1876
Extinct genera
- †Cretosaja Sohn, Jae-Cheon & Gi Soo Nam, 2021
- †Palaeosilpha Flach, 1890
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Nicrophorini Kirby, 1837". Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/9L886.
- ↑ Sikes, Derek S.; Thayer, Margaret K.; Newton, Alfred F. (2024). "Large carrion and burying beetles evolved from Staphylinidae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Silphinae): A review of the evidence". ZooKeys (1200): 159–182. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1200.122835.
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