Thanatophilus
Genus of beetles
| Thanatophilus | |
|---|---|
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| Thanatophilus lapponicus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Silphidae |
| Genus: | Thanatophilus Leach, 1815 |
Thanatophilus is a genus of carrion beetles in the family Silphidae. There are about 12 described species in Thanatophilus.[1][2][3]
Species
These 12 species belong to the genus Thanatophilus:
- Thanatophilus coloradensis (Wickham, 1902)
- Thanatophilus dispar (Herbst, 1793)
- Thanatophilus ferrugatus (Solsky, 1874)
- Thanatophilus lapponicus (Herbst, 1793) (northern carrion beetle)
- Thanatophilus ruficornis (Kuster, 1851)
- Thanatophilus rugosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Thanatophilus sagax (Mannerheim, 1853)
- Thanatophilus sinuatus (Fabricius, 1775)
- Thanatophilus terminatus (Hummel, 1825)
- Thanatophilus trituberculatus (Kirby, 1837)
- Thanatophilus truncatus (Say, 1823)
- Thanatophilus uralensis Kozminykh, 1994
References
Further reading
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2015). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-29685-5.
External links
Media related to Thanatophilus at Wikimedia Commons
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