Silphinae

Updated on Sep 20, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Order Coleoptera		Phylum Arthropoda Rank Subfamily

Lower classifications Phosphuga atrata, American carrion beetle

Silphinae is a subfamily of burying beetles or carrion beetles. There are 113 extant species of this subfamily, in two tribus and in 14 genera.

Tribus and selected Genera

Necrodini Portevin, 1926

Diamesus Hope, 1840

Necrodes Leach, 1815

Silphini Latreille, 1807

Ablattaria Reitter, 1884

Aclypea Reitter, 1884

Dendroxena Motschulsky, 1858

Heterosilpha

Heterotemna Wollaston, 1864

Necrophila

Oiceoptoma Leach, 1815

Oxelytrum

Phosphuga Leach, 1817

Ptomaphila Kirby & Spence, 1828

Silpha Linnaeus, 1758

Thanatophilus Leach, 1815

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