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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)
COLEOPTERA
(beetles)
POLYPHAGA
(mainly terrestrial beetles)
Staphyliniformia
(burying beetles, carrion beetles, rove beetles etc.)
STAPHYLINOIDEA
SILPHIDAE
(sexton beetles)
NICROPHORINAE
(a subfamily of sexton beetles)
Nicrophorus
(sexton beetles)
Nicrophorus
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Nicrophorus (sexton beetles)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #macrophotos #refs
Species Nicrophorus humator (Gleditsch, 1767) (Black Sexton Beetle) 2 7  
Species Nicrophorus investigator Zetterstedt, 1824 (a sexton beetle) 6 3 1
Species Nicrophorus vespillo (L., 1758) (Common Burying Beetle) 8    

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Key to the British species of genus Nicrophorus: http://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeys/ Key to the British species of genus Nicrophorus
Wright, R., 2009 Beginner’s Guide: Silphidae 1: Nicrophorus

Nicrophorus may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 COLEOPTERA
(beetles)		 STAPHYLINOIDEA SILPHIDAE
(sexton beetles)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 feeding and other relationships of Nicrophorus (sexton beetles)

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