Nicrophorus lunatus

Nicrophorus lunatus is a burying beetle described by Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim in 1842.

For the species misidentified by LeConte in 1853 and declared a new species under the name Nicrophorus lunatus, but later corrected, see Nicrophorus sayi.
For the species misidentified by Gistel in 1857 and declared a new species under the name Nicrophorus lunatus, but later corrected, see Nicrophorus marginatus.

Nicrophorus lunatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Silphidae
Genus: Nicrophorus
Species:
N. lunatus
Binomial name
Nicrophorus lunatus
Synonyms
  • N. stenophtalma, Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1894
  • N. (Necrophoriscus) lunatus, Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1933
  • Silpha (Nicrophorus) stenophthalma, Jakovlev, 1887

References
  • Sikes, Derek S.; Madge, Ronald B.; Newton, Alfred F. (August 29, 2002). "A catalog of the Nicrophorinae (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of the world". Zootaxa. 65 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.65.1.1. ISBN 0-9582395-1-7. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 10, 2006.


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