Silphidae

Nicrophorus vespilloides

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Silphidae
Subfamiliae (2): Nicrophorinae - Silphinae

Overview of genera (18)

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

Name

• Silphidae Latreille, 1807

Synonym

• Necrophoridae Kirby, 1837

Selected references

• Cai, C.-Y. et al. 2014: Early origin of parental care in Mesozoic carrion beetles. PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1412280111 Reference page. 
• Latreille, P.A. 1807. Genera crustaceorum et insectorum secundem ordinem naturalem in familias disposita, iconibus exemplisque plurimus explicata. Tomus tertius. Parisiis et Argentorati: A. Koenig, 258 pp. BHL 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

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
français: Silphe
lietuvių: Maitvabaliai
magyar: Dögbogarak
日本語: シデムシ
norsk: Åtselbiller
polski: Omarlicowate
русский: Мертвоеды
suomi: Raatokuoriaiset
Türkçe: Leş böceğigiller

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