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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Carrion Beetles (Silphidae) » Sexton Beetles (Nicrophorus) » Roundneck Sexton Beetle (Nicrophorus orbicollis)
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Red and Black Beetle with Mites - Nicrophorus orbicollis
Copyright © 2011 Elliotte Rusty Harold

Red and Black Beetle with Mites - Nicrophorus orbicollis
Shaw Nature Reserve, Franklin County, Missouri, USA
September 3, 2011
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Contributed by Elliotte Rusty Harold on 11 September, 2011 - 5:30pm
Last updated 12 September, 2011 - 6:21am

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… Elliotte Rusty Harold, 12 September, 2011 - 6:21am login or register to post comments

ID
Rove Beetle
… Andrew D. Murray Sr., 11 September, 2011 - 5:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Not a Rove Beetle but a Sexton Beetle
look in Nicrophorus.
… J. Ott, 11 September, 2011 - 5:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Or maybe
Nicrophorus (Sexton Beetles)
… John R. Maxwell, 11 September, 2011 - 5:49pm login or register to post comments

 
N. orbicollis
defodians would have black antennae tips,
sayi with front maculation extending towards pronotum
tomentosus and marginatus would have larger maculations (and tomies have hairs on the pronotum)
americanus - orange pronotum

the other few are really distinct. therefore i think by process of elimination its an orbicollis.
… Eric LoPresti, 11 September, 2011 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

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