Nicrophorini
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Nicrophorini is a tribe of burying beetles or carrion beetles in the subfamily Silphinae.[1] 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.[2]
Genera
This beetle tribe contains the following genera:[1]
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
References
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