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Home Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Order Coleoptera Suborder Polyphaga Family Silphidae

Family Silphidae
(carrion beetles)




Necrodes surinamensis
Necrodes surinamensis
American burying beetle
Nicrophorus americanus
 
American burying beetle
Nicrophorus americanus
burying beetle
Nicrophorus orbicollis
burying beetle
Nicrophorus orbicollis
 
burying beetle
Nicrophorus orbicollis
Silpha americana
Silpha americana
 
Silpha americana
carrion beetles
Silphidae
carrion beetles
Silphidae
 
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Citation: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2008. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed October 13, 2008 at http://animaldiversity.org.

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