Taxonavigation
Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Silphidae
Subfamiliae (2):
Nicrophorinae –
Silphinae
Overview of genera (19)
Ablattaria –
Aclypea –
Dendroxena –
Diamesus –
Eonecrophorus –
Heterosilpha –
Necrodes –
Necrophila –
Nicrophorus –
Oiceoptoma –
Oxelytrum –
Phosphuga –
Ptomaphila –
Ptomascopus –
Silpha –
Thanatophilus –
†Palaeosilpha –
?†Allopliosilpha –
?†Pliosilpha
Name
Silphidae Latreille, 1806
Synonymy
- Necrophoridae Kirby, 1837
References
Primary references
- Latreille, P.A. 1806 [1807]. Genera crustaceorum et insectorum secundem ordinem naturalem in familias disposita, iconibus exemplisque plurimis explicata. Tomus secundus. Parisiis et Argentorati: A. Koenig, 280 pp. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
- Cai, C.-Y. et al. 2014: Early origin of parental care in Mesozoic carrion beetles. PNAS, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1412280111 Reference page.
- Çiftçi, D., Růžička, J., Hasbenlı, A. & Şahin, U. 2018. The large carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Turkey: a review with a new species record. Zootaxa 4441(3): 555–591. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.3.10
Reference page.
- Dobler, S.; Müller, J.K. 2000: Resolving Phylogeny at the Family Level by Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase Sequences: Phylogeny of Carrion Beetles (Coleoptera, Silphidae). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 15: 390–402. DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0765 PDF
- Madge, R.B. 1980: A catalogue of type-species in the family Silphidae (Coleoptera). Entomologica scandinavica, 11(3): 353–362. DOI: 10.1163/187631280794824640
- Mullins, P.L.; Riley, E.G.; Oswald, J.D. 2013: Identification, distribution, and adult phenology of the carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Texas. Zootaxa 3666(2): 221–251. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3666.2.7 Reference page.
- Peck, S.B. 2001: Review of the carrion beetles of Australia and New Guinea (Coleoptera: Silphidae). Australian journal of entomology, 40: 93–101. DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-6055.2001.00216.x
- Peck, S.B.; Anderson, R.S. 1985: Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the carrion beetles of Latin America (Coleoptera: Silphidae). Quaestiones entomologicae, 21: 247–317. PDF
- Sikes, D.S.; Madge, R.B.; Newton, A.F. 2002: A catalog of the Nicrophorinae (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of the world. Zootaxa, 65: 1–304. Abstract & excerpt PDF
- Sikes, D.S.; Madge, R.B.; Trumbo, S.T. 2006: Revision of Nicrophorus in part: new species and inferred phylogeny of the nepalensis-group based on evidence from morphology and mitochondrial DNA (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae). Invertebrate systematics, 20: 305–365. DOI: 10.1071/IS05020
- Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2 ed. I. Lobl, & A. Smetana, Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 2004
ISBN 87-88757-74-9, p.229
Links
Vernacular names
čeština: Mrchožrouti
Deutsch: Aaskäfer
English: carrion beetles
suomi: Raatokuoriaiset
français: Silphe
magyar: Dögbogarak
日本語: シデムシ
lietuvių: Maitvabaliai
norsk: Åtselbiller
polski: Omarlicowate
русский: Мертвоеды
Türkçe: Leş böceğigiller
中文: 埋葬甲科
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