Necrophila

Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Silphidae
Subfamilia: Silphinae
Genus: Necrophila
Subgenera (5):
Calosilpha –
Chrysosilpha –
Deutosilpha –
Eusilpha –
Necrophila
Overview of species (8)
[edit]N. americana – N. cyaniventris – N. formosa – N. ioptera – N. luciae – N. renatae – N. rufithorax – Necrophila viridis ...
Name
[edit]Necrophila Kirby & Spence, 1828: 509
- Type species: Silpha americana Linnaeus, 1758. Type by original designation.
Synonymy
[edit]- Necrobora Hope, 1840
- Necrotropha Gistel, 1848
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- 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 Also, descriptions of newly discovered and unpublished insects.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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ION
- Nomenclator Zoologicus
- Tree of Life classification of Silphinae showing subgenera of Necrophila