Nicrophorus pustulatus

Nicrophorus pustulatus is a burying beetle described by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1808.

Nicrophorus pustulatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Silphidae
Genus: Nicrophorus
Species:
N. pustulatus
Binomial name
Nicrophorus pustulatus
Illiger in Herschel (1808)
Synonyms
  • Necrophorus [sic] pustulatus Illiger in Herschel, 1808
  • Necrophorus [sic] bicolon Newman, 1838
  • Necrophorus [sic] tardus Mannerheim, 1853

Behavior

While N. pustulatus is capable of using carrion to feed its larvae (as in other species of Nicrophorus), it is the only species in the genus thus far shown to be able to use other food resources; in this case, the females can raise their brood on snake eggs.[1]

See Also

References
  1. Smith G, Trumbo ST, Sikes DS, Scott MP, Smith RL. Host shift by the burying beetle, Nicrophorus pustulatus, a parasitoid of snake eggs. J Evol Biol. 2007 Nov;20(6):2389-99. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01404.x. PMID: 17956400.
  • Sikes, Derek S.; Madge, Ronald B.; Newton, Alfred F. (August 29, 2002). "A catalog of the Nicrophorinae (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of the world". Zootaxa. 65 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.65.1.1. ISBN 0-9582395-1-7. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 10, 2006.


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