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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Carrion Beetles (Silphidae) » Necrophila » American Carrion Beetle (Necrophila americana)
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Stink bug, shield bug or something else? - Necrophila americana
Copyright © 2008 Jairo Cruz

Stink bug, shield bug or something else? - Necrophila americana
Pelham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
August 17, 2008
Size: 1/2"
Collected this one under some oak and maple trees in Southern New Hampshire. The shield over the thorax is translucent and yellow in color.
Also I would like to know what these bugs feed on.
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Contributed by Jairo Cruz on 19 August, 2008 - 10:32pm
Last updated 18 October, 2010 - 12:39am

Thanks!
Thanks so much Guy.
Now that I know what it is, I do remember seeing a lot of mushrooms on the ground. Probably feeding on those when I caught it.
… Jairo Cruz, 19 August, 2008 - 11:16pm login or register to post comments

Carrion beetle
Necrophila americana - the American Carrion Beetle, and like all silphids, is associated with all things dead and decaying...
… Guy A. Hanley, 19 August, 2008 - 10:46pm login or register to post comments

 
ID
Isn't this Silpha sp?
… Andy Calderwood, 20 August, 2008 - 11:21am login or register to post comments

 
Old taxonomy
LeConte (1853) and Horn (1880) only had two genera, Silpha and Nicrophorus
Portevin (1926) divided up Silpha into the genera we use today, but the old style was still used up until the late 70's to mid 80's, so many books through that time may have that organization. The taxa I have completed here in Bugguide under the Silphidae section is the current used.
… Guy A. Hanley, 20 August, 2008 - 2:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Systematics
Thanks for the education. It appears that what I had been calling Silpha now goes by other names.
… Andy Calderwood, 20 August, 2008 - 9:47pm login or register to post comments

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