Family Silphidae
Taxon ID: 27754
Summary
Maryland Biodiversity Project has documented 16 taxa in Family Silphidae spanning 6 genera.
Records
MBP has 1,341 records spanning all 23 Maryland counties and Baltimore City.
Direct Child Taxa (6)
Taxonomic Leaves (13)
- American Carrion Beetle (Necrophila americana)
- Ridged Carrion Beetle (Oiceoptoma inaequale)
- Margined Carrion Beetle (Oiceoptoma noveboracense)
- American Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus americanus)
- Nicrophorus carolinus
- Margined Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus marginatus)
- Round-necked Sexton Beetle (Nicrophorus orbicollis)
- Nicrophorus pustulatus
- Tomentose Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus tomentosus)
- Boreal Carrion Beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides)
- Red-lined Carrion Beetle (Necrodes surinamensis)
- Nicrophorus sayi
- Nicrophorus defodiens
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