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Genus Nicrophorus - Sexton Beetles

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods
Class Insecta - Insects
Order Coleoptera - Beetles
Suborder Polyphaga - Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles
Superfamily Staphylinoidea - Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles
Family Silphidae - Carrion Beetles
Genus Nicrophorus - Sexton Beetles

Species americanus - American Burying Beetle
Species carolinus - Nicrophorus carolinus
Species defodiens - Nicrophorus defodiens
Species guttula - Nicrophorus guttula
Species hybridus - Nicrophorus hybridus
Species investigator - Nicrophorus investigator
Species marginatus - Nicrophorus marginatus
Species mexicanus - Nicrophorus mexicanus
Species nigrita - Black Burying Beetle
Species obscurus - Nicrophorus obscurus
Species orbicollis - Nicrophorus orbicollis
Species pustulatus - Nicrophorus pustulatus
Species sayi - Nicrophorus sayi
Species tomentosus - Nicrophorus tomentosus
Species vespilloides - Nicrophorus vespilloides

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