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American burying beetle, is an
endangered species. The
oldest fossils of
silphids are
known from the
Middle Jur****ic (~ 163
million years ago)
Daohugou Bed...
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Poecilochirus austroasiaticus Vitzhum, 1930 P.
nordi Nicrophorus and
other Silphid beetles Poecilochirus belkahvensis Ramaraju & Madanlar, 1998
mushroom compost...
- ****ociated with
small vertebrate carrion, and most
species are p****tic on
silphid beetles of the
genus Nicrophorus.
Pelzneria afluctuosa Mahunka, 1978 Pelzneria...
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species in the
genus Eonecrophorus. Kurosawa,
Yoshihiko (1985). "A new
silphid genus and
species (Coleoptera, Silphidae) from Nepal".
Bulletin of the...
- 142–156. Pierce, W.D. (1949). "Fossil
arthropods of
California 17. The
silphid burying beetles in the
asphalt deposits".
Bulletin of the
Southern California...
- and
flattened body with a
yellow pronotum. It is the only
North American silphid with a
mostly yellow pronotum, and it is the only
species of Necrophila...
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subterranea is a true cave
species found in Texas. The
exclusively cave-dwelling
silphid Adelops hirtus occurs in
Kentucky caves and has very minute, unpigmented...
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separated into
sclerotized sternal units called sternites. It is
thought that
silphids,
including N. orbicollis,
arose in the
early Mesozoic and
spread to southern...
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preferences of this
necrophagous beetle.
Overall it has been
observed that this
Silphid species prefers the
forest environment and
warmer months. The
ability of...
