Nicrophorus lunatus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 Subfamily: Nicrophorinae Tribe: Nicrophorini Genus: Nicrophorus Species: N. lunatus
Binomial name
Nicrophorus lunatus Fischer von Waldheim, 1842

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

[edit] References

http://collections2.eeb.uconn.edu/nicroweb/PDFs/Sikes_et_al_2002.pdf