Nicrophorini Explained

Nicrophorini is a tribe of burying beetles or carrion beetles in the subfamily Silphinae. It was formerly treated as subfamily Nicrophorinae within family Silphidae, but this family was found to be nested in family Staphylinidae in phylogenetic analyses and Silphidae was reassigned as a subfamily Staphylinidae.^[1]

Genera

This beetle tribe contains the following genera:

Extant genera

• Eonecrophorus Kurosawa, 1985
• Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775
• Proscapheus
• Ptomascopus Kraatz, 1876

Extinct genera

• †Cretosaja Sohn, Jae-Cheon & Gi Soo Nam, 2021
• †Palaeosilpha Flach, 1890

Notes and References

1. 10.3897/zookeys.1200.122835 . 1200 . free . Large carrion and burying beetles evolved from Staphylinidae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Silphinae): A review of the evidence . 2024 . Sikes . Derek S. . Thayer . Margaret K. . Newton . Alfred F. . ZooKeys . 159–182 . 11096728 .