Nicrophorus lunatus

For the species misidentified by LeConte in 1853 and declared a new species under the name Nicrophorus lunatus, but later corrected, see Nicrophorus sayi.

For the species misidentified by Gistel in 1857 and declared a new species under the name Nicrophorus lunatus, but later corrected, see Nicrophorus marginatus.

Nicrophorus lunatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Silphidae
Genus:	Nicrophorus
Species:	N. lunatus
Binomial name
Nicrophorus lunatus Fischer von Waldheim, 1842
Synonyms
N. stenophtalma, Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1894 N. (Necrophoriscus) lunatus, Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1933 Silpha (Nicrophorus) stenophthalma, Jakovlev, 1887

Nicrophorus lunatus is a burying beetle described by Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim in 1842.

References

• 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.