Silphinae

Subfamily of beetles

Silphinae
Oxelytrum cayennense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Silphidae
Subfamily: Silphinae
Latreille, 1806[1]

Silphinae is a subfamily of carrion beetles. There are 113 extant species of this subfamily, in two tribe and in 14 genera. It contains the following tribes and genera:[2]

Tribes and genera

  • Necrodini Portevin, 1926
    • Diamesus Hope, 1840
    • Necrodes Leach, 1815
  • Silphini Latreille, 1806
    • Ablattaria Reitter, 1884
    • Aclypea Reitter, 1884
    • Dendroxena Motschulsky, 1858
    • Heterosilpha Portevin, 1926
    • Heterotemna Wollaston, 1864
    • Necrophila Kirby & Spence, 1828
    • Oiceoptoma Leach, 1815
    • Oxelytrum Gistel, 1848
    • Phosphuga Leach, 1817
    • Ptomaphila Kirby & Spence, 1828
    • Silpha Linnaeus, 1758
    • Thanatophilus Leach, 1815
    • Allopliosilpha Gersdorf, 1969
    • Pliosilpha Gersdorf, 1970

References

  1. ^ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; Lawrence, John F.; Lyal, Chris H. C.; Newton, Alfred F.; Reid, Chris A. M.; Schmitt, Michael; Ślipiński, S. Adam; Smith, Andrew B. T. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
  2. ^ Biolib
Taxon identifiers
Silphinae


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