Species list, Checklist of Family Silphidae (Burying And Carrion Beetles) for West Virginia (USA)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Family Silphidae Latreille, 1807 (Burying And Carrion Beetles)
and region West Virginia (USA)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	419 3097 6568	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	417 3093 6563	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	394 3002 6364	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	278 2479 5175	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758 Beetles, Coleopterans	75 651 1009	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Polyphaga Emery, 1886 Polyphags	70 556 807	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Staphyliniformia Lameere, 1900	8 75 113	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Staphylinoidea Latreille, 1802 Carrion Beetles, Fungus Beetles, Rove Beetles	6 52 84	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Silphidae Latreille, 1807 Burying And Carrion Beetles, Burying beetles	5 11	Genera Species	Taxom

Genera for West Virginia
5 Genera with 11 Species

Necrodes Leach, 1775		1	Species	Taxom
Necrophila Kirby & Spence, 1758		1	Species	Taxom
Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1801	Burying Beetle	6	Species	Taxom
Oiceoptoma Leach, 1771		2	Species	Taxom
Thanatophilus Leach, 1823		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for West Virginia
11 Species

Necrodes surinamensis Fabricius, 1775	Red-lined Carrion Beetle
Necrophila americana Linnaeus, 1758	American Carrion Beetle
Nicrophorus defodiens Mannerheim, 1846
Nicrophorus marginatus Fabricius, 1801	Margined Burying Beetle
Nicrophorus orbicollis Say, 1825	Roundneck Sexton Beetle
Nicrophorus pustulatus Herschel, 1807	Pustulated Carrion Beetle
Nicrophorus sayi Laporte, 1840	Say'S Burying Beetle
Nicrophorus tomentosus Weber, 1801	Gold-necked carrion beetle
Oiceoptoma inaequale Fabricius, 1781	Ridged Carrion Beetle
Oiceoptoma noveboracense Forster, 1771	Margined Carrion Beetle
Thanatophilus truncatus Say, 1823

Subnodes of Silphidae with occurrences in West Virginia

Subfamily	Nicrophorinae Kirby, 1837	1 6	Genus Species	Taxom
Subfamily	Silphinae Latreille, 1807	4 5	Genera Species	Taxom

Silphidae (Latreille 1807)

Links, sources and further information

Silphidae at artfakta.se
Silphidae at dyntaxa.se
Silphidae at gbif.org
Silphidae at irmng.org
Silphidae at itis.gov