English species names of Family Silphidae (Burying And Carrion Beetles)

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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English species names of Family Silphidae Latreille, 1807
Burying And Carrion Beetles, Burying beetles, Carrion Beetle, Carrion beetles, Large carrion beetles, Sexton beetles

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	4179 190570 2444470	Families Genera Species
Order	Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758 Beetles, Coleopterans	592 62779 813516	Families Genera Species
Family	Silphidae Latreille, 1807 Burying And Carrion Beetles, Burying beetles	77 1248	Genera Species


A
American burying beetle	Nicrophorus americanus Olivier, 1790
American Carrion Beetle	Necrophila americana Linnaeus, 1758
American carrion beetle	Silpha americana Linnaeus, 1758

B
Banded Sexton Beetle	Nicrophorus investigator Zetterstedt, 1824
Beet Carrion Beetle	Aclypea opaca Linnaeus, 1758
Beet carrion beetle	Blitophaga opaca L., 1758
Black Burying Beetle	Nicrophorus nigrita Mannerheim, 1843
Black Carrion Beetle	Phosphuga atrata Linnaeus, 1758
Black Sexton Beetle	Nicrophorus humator Gleditsch, 1767
Black Snail Beetle	Phosphuga atrata Linnaeus, 1758
Black Snail Beetle	Silpha atrata Linnæus, 1758
Boreal Carrion Beetle	Nicrophorus vespilloides Herbst, 1783
Burying Beetle	Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775
Burying beetles	Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775

C
Carrion Beetle	Ptomaphila lacrymosa Schreibers, 1802
Carrion Beetle	Ptomaphila perlata Kraatz, 1876
Carrion beetle	Dendroxena quadrimaculata Scopoli, 1771
Common Burying Beetle	Nicrophorus vespillo Linnaeus, 1758
Common sexton beetle	Nicrophorus vespilloides Herbst, 1783
Common sexton beetle	Nicrophorus vespillo Linnaeus, 1758

G
Garden Carrion Beetle	Heterosilpha ramosa Say, 1823
Giant carrion beetle	Nicrophorus americanus Olivier, 1790
Gold-necked carrion beetle	Nicrophorus tomentosus Weber, 1801

M
Margined Burying Beetle	Nicrophorus marginatus Fabricius, 1801
Margined Carrion Beetle	Oiceoptoma noveboracense Forster, 1771

N
Nicrophorus encautus	Nicrophorus encaustus Fairmaire, 1896
Northern Carrion Beetle	Thanatophilus lapponicus Herbst, 1793

P
Pustulated Carrion Beetle	Nicrophorus pustulatus Herschel, 1807

R
Red-breasted Carrion Beetle	Oiceoptoma thoracicum Linnaeus, 1758
Red-lined Carrion Beetle	Necrodes surinamensis Fabricius, 1775
Ridged Carrion Beetle	Oiceoptoma inaequale Fabricius, 1781
Roundneck Sexton Beetle	Nicrophorus orbicollis Say, 1825

S
Say'S Burying Beetle	Nicrophorus sayi Laporte, 1840
Sexton Beetle	Nicrophorus tomentosus Weber, 1801
Sexton beetles	Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775
Shore Sexton Beetle	Necrodes littoralis Linnaeus, 1758
Silphid beetle	Silpha carinata Herbst, 1783
Silphid beetle	Aclypea opaca Linnaeus, 1758
Spinach carrion beetle	Silpha bituberosa LeConte & J.L., 1859

T
Tomentose Burying Beetle	Nicrophorus tomentosus Weber, 1801
Tormentose Burying Beetle	Nicrophorus tomentosus Weber, 1801

W
Western Spinach Carrion Beetle	Aclypea bituberosa LeConte, 1859

Y
Yellow-bellied Burying Beetle	Nicrophorus guttula Motschulsky, 1845

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