Silphidae

Nicrophorus vespilloides

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: Silphidae
Subfamiliae (2): Nicrophorinae – Silphinae

Overview of genera (19)

Ablattaria – Aclypea – Dendroxena – Diamesus – Eonecrophorus – Heterosilpha – Necrodes – Necrophila – Nicrophorus – Oiceoptoma – Oxelytrum – Phosphuga – Ptomaphila – Ptomascopus – Silpha – Thanatophilus – †Palaeosilpha – ?†Allopliosilpha – ?†Pliosilpha

Name

Silphidae Latreille, 1806

Synonymy

• Necrophoridae Kirby, 1837

References

Primary references

• Latreille, P.A. 1806 [1807]. Genera crustaceorum et insectorum secundem ordinem naturalem in familias disposita, iconibus exemplisque plurimis explicata. Tomus secundus. Parisiis et Argentorati: A. Koenig, 280 pp. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Cai, C.-Y., Thayer, M.K., Engel, M.S., Newton, A.F., Ortega-Blanco, J., Wang, B,, Wang, X.-D. & Huang, D.-Y. 2014. Early origin of parental care in Mesozoic carrion beetles. PNAS 111(39): 14170–14174. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1412280111 Reference page. 
• Cai, C., Tihelka, E., Giacomelli, M., Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Kundrata, R., Yamamoto, S., Thayer, M.K., Newton, A.F., Leschen, R.A.B., Gimmel, M.L., Lü, L., Engel, M.S., Bouchard, P., Huang, D., Pisani, D. & Donoghue, P.C.J. 2022. Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles. Royal Society Open Science 9: 211771. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.211771 . [Supplemental material] Reference page.  [treated as subfamily of Staphylinidae]
• Çiftçi, D., Růžička, J., Hasbenli, A. & Şahin, U. 2018. The large carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Turkey: a review with a new species record. Zootaxa 4441(3): 555–591. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.3.10 Reference page. 
• Dobler, S.; Müller, J.K. 2000: Resolving Phylogeny at the Family Level by Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase Sequences: Phylogeny of Carrion Beetles (Coleoptera, Silphidae). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 15: 390–402. DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0765 PDF
• Madge, R.B. 1980: A catalogue of type-species in the family Silphidae (Coleoptera). Entomologica scandinavica, 11(3): 353–362. DOI: 10.1163/187631280794824640
• Mullins, P.L., Riley, E.G. & Oswald, J.D. 2013. Identification, distribution, and adult phenology of the carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Texas. Zootaxa 3666(2): 221–251. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3666.2.7 Reference page. 
• Peck, S.B. 2001: Review of the carrion beetles of Australia and New Guinea (Coleoptera: Silphidae). Australian journal of entomology, 40: 93–101. DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-6055.2001.00216.x
• Peck, S.B.; Anderson, R.S. 1985: Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the carrion beetles of Latin America (Coleoptera: Silphidae). Quaestiones entomologicae, 21: 247–317. PDF
• Sikes, D.S.; Madge, R.B.; Newton, A.F. 2002: A catalog of the Nicrophorinae (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of the world. Zootaxa, 65: 1–304. Abstract & excerpt PDF
• Sikes, D.S.; Madge, R.B.; Trumbo, S.T. 2006: Revision of Nicrophorus in part: new species and inferred phylogeny of the nepalensis-group based on evidence from morphology and mitochondrial DNA (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae). Invertebrate systematics, 20: 305–365. DOI: 10.1071/IS05020
• Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2 ed. I. Lobl, & A. Smetana, Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 2004
  ISBN 87-88757-74-9, p.229
• Sikes, D.S., Thayer, M.K. & Newton, A.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 Reference page.  [treated as subfamily of Staphylinidae]

Links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Silphidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
• Atlas of family Silphidae of Russia

Vernacular names

беларуская: Мерцвяеды
čeština: Mrchožrouti
Deutsch: Aaskäfer
English: carrion beetles
suomi: Raatokuoriaiset
français: Silphe
magyar: Dögbogarak
日本語: シデムシ
lietuvių: Maitvabaliai
norsk: Åtselbiller
polski: Omarlicowate
русский: Мертвоеды
Türkçe: Leş böceğigiller
中文: 埋葬甲科

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