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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Carrion Beetles (Silphidae) » Sexton Beetles (Nicrophorus) » Nicrophorus pustulatus
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Carrion Beetle - Nicrophorus pustulatus
Copyright © 2005 Matt Martin

Carrion Beetle - Nicrophorus pustulatus
Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio, USA
July 19, 2005
Size: 23 mm
Crawled to UV light in the woods. I keyed it out to Silphidae, but can't find any images that resemble this one.
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Contributed by Matt Martin on 16 December, 2005 - 3:39pm
Last updated 9 May, 2009 - 4:20am

Carrion Beetle
I believe this is Nicrophorus pustulatus ...(i'm not sure on spelling but am fairly sure on ID)
http://collections2.eeb.uconn.edu/nicroweb/nicrobull.htm this is a good resource for this group
… Andy Varsho, 16 December, 2005 - 4:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Nicrophorus pustulatus
Andy, I went to that site and I would agree that is what I have. Thanks again for your help.
Family:Silphidae SubFamily-nicrophorinae
… Matt Martin, 16 December, 2005 - 6:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Will move to guide
I'll go ahead and move this to a new guide.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 17 December, 2005 - 4:24am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
Thank you for moving this to a guide page Patrick.
I did a little research on this beetle and found that they are parasitic to various snake eggs. They make a small hole in the snake eggs and lay their own eggs inside it.
… Matt Martin, 17 December, 2005 - 8:12am login or register to post comments

 
Fascinating!
That life history is quite amazing. I added a reference to the guide page for the species.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 17 December, 2005 - 10:35am login or register to post comments

 
Outstanding
The guide page looks excellent, Thanks for your involvement patrick.
… Matt Martin, 17 December, 2005 - 10:49pm login or register to post comments

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