Necrophilus

Necrophilus hydrophiloides

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Agyrtidae
Subfamilia: Necrophilinae
Genus: Necrophilus
Species: N. hydrophiloides – N. nomurai – N. pettitii – N. roderi – N. rupinensis – N. sichuanensis – N. subterraneus

[sources: Newton (1997: 148), Růžička & Pütz (2009)]

Name

• Necrophilus Latreille, 1829

Synonyms

• Paranecrophilus Shibata, 1969
• Pseudosilpha Schawaller, 1978

References

• Newton, A.F. 1997: Review of Agyrtidae (Coleoptera), with a new genus and species from New Zealand. Annales zoologici, 47: 111–156. ISSN: 0003-4541
• Nikolajev, G.V. 2003: A new Necrophilus Latr. species (Coleoptera, Agyrtidae) from Asia. Tethys entomological research, 8: 149–150. [not seen]
• Růžička, J.; Pütz, A. 2009: New species and new records of Agyrtidae (Coleoptera) from China, India, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 49: 631–650. Abstract PDF
• Schawaller, W. 1978: Eine neue Gattung und Art, Pseudosilpha n. gen. roderi n. sp., aus dem Bhutan-Himalaya. Coleoptera, Silphidae, Pterolomini. Entomologica basiliensia, 3: 103–108.
• Schawaller, W. 1986: Die Gattung Necrophilus Latreille 1829 im Himalaya (Insecta: Coleoptera: Agyrtidae) [The genus Necrophilus Latreille 1829 from Himalaya (Insecta: Coleoptera: Agyrtidae)]. Senckenbergiana biologica, 66: 311–319.
• Shibata, T. 1969: Some reports on the burying beetles from Japan. I. (Col., Silphidae). Entomological review of Japan, 21 (2): 47–54.
• Zhou, H.-z.; Yu, X.-d.; Luo, T.-h. 2005: Discovery of the subfamily Necrophilinae (Coleoptera: Agyrtidae) in China and description of a new species of Necrophilus Latreille. Coleopterists bulletin, 59: 62–69. DOI: 10.1649/693

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Zicha, Ondřej et al. Necrophilus – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).

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