Necrophila

Necrophila americana (♂ on left, ♀ on right)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata 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: Silphidae
Subfamilia: Silphinae
Genus: Necrophila
Subgenera (5): Calosilpha – Chrysosilpha – Deutosilpha – Eusilpha – Necrophila

Overview of species (8)

N. americana – N. cyaniventris – N. formosa – N. ioptera – N. luciae – N. renatae – N. rufithorax – Necrophila viridis ...

Name

Necrophila Kirby & Spence, 1828: 509

• Type species: Silpha americana Linnaeus, 1758. Type by original designation.

Synonymy

• Necrobora Hope, 1840
• Necrotropha Gistel, 1848

References

Primary references

• Kirby, W. & Spence, W. 1828. An Introduction to Entomology: or elements of the natural history of insects, 4. Fifth Edition. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London. BHL
• Hope, F.W. 1841 ("1840"). The coleopterist's manual, part the third, containing various families, genera, and species, of beetles, recorded by Linneus and Fabricius. Also, descriptions of newly discovered and unpublished insects. London : J.C. Bridgewater and Bowdery & Kerby. 191 pp. + 3 pls. BHL Reference page.  (See page. 26.)

Additional references

• Anderson, R.S. & Peck, S.B. 1985. The Carrion Beetles of Canada and Alaska (Coleoptera: Silphidae and Agyrtidae). Research Branch Agriculture Canada, Ottawa.
• Růžička, J., Qubaiová, J., Nishikawa, M. & Schneider, J. 2015. Revision of Palearctic and Oriental Necrophila Kirby et Spence, part 3: subgenus Calosilpha Portevin (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Silphinae). Zootaxa 4013(4): 451–502. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.4.4. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Tree of Life classification of Silphinae showing subgenera of Necrophila