Necrophilus

Genus of beetles

Necrophilus

Necrophilus subterraneus
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
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]

## Species

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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

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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

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

## External links

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* Media related to Necrophilus at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Necrophilus|

* Wikidata: Q21231112
* Wikispecies: Necrophilus
* BioLib: 5318
* BOLD: 501867
* BugGuide: 29331
* CoL: 8VRW4
* EoL: 3486352
* Fauna Europaea (new): 74b9177e-98ec-46c0-8f28-6627cb8fd806
* GBIF: 3261370
* iNaturalist: 176869
* IRMNG: 1271693
* ITIS: 1014310
* NCBI: 66533
* Open Tree of Life: 215462

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