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Nicrophorini

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Nicrophorinae
File:AmericanCarrionBeetle.jpg
American Burying Beetle
Scientific classification
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Nicrophorinae
Tribes
  • Nicrophorini

Nicrophorinae is a subfamily of burying beetles or carrion beetles. There are 65 living species of this subfamily, and 3 fossil species.

The only tribe is Nicrophorini.


References

http://collections2.eeb.uconn.edu/nicroweb/PDFs/Sikes_et_al_2002.pdf