Nicrophorus sepulchralis

Nicrophorus sepulchralis is a burying beetle described by Oswald Heer in 1841. It is endemic to the mountains of southern Europe.[1]

Nicrophorus sepulchralis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Silphidae
Genus: Nicrophorus
Species:
N. sepulchralis
Binomial name
Nicrophorus sepulchralis
Heer, 1841
Synonyms
  • Necrophorus sepulchralis Heer, 1841
  • Silpha sepulchralis – Reitter, 1884

References
  1. 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): 1–304. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.65.1.1. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 10, 2006.


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