Subfamily Nicrophorinae Kirby 1837

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Alternative spelling: Necrophoridae

Full reference: W. Kirby. 1837. The insects. Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions, under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N 4:1-325

Parent taxon: Silphidae according to J. C. Sohn and G. S. Nam 2021

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Rŭžička 2015

Sister taxa: Miosilpha, Silphinae, Heterosilpha

Subtaxa: Cretosaja Nicrophorus Palaeosilpha Ptomascopus

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Type: Nicrophorus

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (14: California collections)

• Pliocene of Germany (1)

• Oligocene of France (3)

• Cretaceous of China (2), Myanmar (1), South Korea (1)

Total: 22 collections including 27 occurrences

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