Nicrophorus americanus A.G.Olivier, 1790
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Olivier, A.G. (1790) Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des insectes, avec leurs caracteres génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie, et leur figure enluminée. Coléoptères, Vol. 2, Nos. 9-34. Baudouin, Paris. 485 pp.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Staphylinidae
- genus
- Nicrophorus
- species
- Nicrophorus americanus
Name
- Synonyms
- Nicrophorus grandis Fabricius, 1792
- Nicrophorus virginicus Frölich, 1792
- Silpha orientalis Herbst, 1784
- Homonyms
- Nicrophorus americanus A.G.Olivier, 1790
- Common names
- American burying beetle in English
- giant carrion beetle in English
- American Burying Beetle in English
- Nécrophore d'Amérique in French
Bibliographic References
- Sikes, Derek S., Ronald B. Madge, and Alfred F. Newton, 2002: A catalog of the Nicrophorinae (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of the world. Zootaxa, no. 65. 1-304.