Necrophilus

Genus of beetles

Necrophilus

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Family:  | Agyrtidae
Genus:  | Necrophilus
Latreille, 1829

Necrophilus is a genus of primitive carrion beetles in the family Agyrtidae. There are at least three described species in Necrophilus.[1][2][3]

## Contents

* 1 Species
* 2 References
* 3 Further reading
* 4 External links

## Species[edit]

These three species belong to the genus Necrophilus:

* Necrophilus hydrophiloides Guérin-Méneville, 1835 (flat brown scavenger beetle)
* Necrophilus pettiti Horn, 1880 (small scavenger beetle)
* Necrophilus subterraneus (Dahl, 1807)

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Necrophilus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. ^ "Necrophilus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. ^ "Necrophilus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

## Further reading[edit]

* Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2015). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-29685-5.

## External links[edit]

* Media related to Necrophilus at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q21231112
* Wikispecies: Necrophilus
* BioLib: 5318
* BOLD: 501867
* BugGuide: 29331
* EoL: 3486352
* Fauna Europaea (new): 74b9177e-98ec-46c0-8f28-6627cb8fd806
* GBIF: 3261370
* iNaturalist: 176869
* ITIS: 1014310
* NCBI: 66533

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