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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Staphyliniformia » Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles (Staphylinoidea) » Carrion Beetles (Silphidae)

Family Silphidae - Carrion Beetles

 
 
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Aclypea · Heterosilpha · Necrodes · Necrophila · Sexton Beetles

Genus Aclypea
Aclypea opaca Aclypea bituberosa Aclypea opaca Aclypea opaca Carrion Beetle - Aclypea bituberosa Carrion Beetle - Aclypea bituberosa Western Spinach Carrion Beetle - Aclypea bituberosa neat carrion beetle - Aclypea bituberosa

Genus Heterosilpha
Carrion Beetle - SK - Heterosilpha ramosa Carrion beetle on woolly bear - Heterosilpha ramosa Heterosilpha ramosa Flat Beetle - Heterosilpha ramosa Heterosilpha ramosa Coleoptera - Heterosilpha ramosa Heterosilpha? - Heterosilpha ramosa Heterosilpha? - Heterosilpha ramosa

Genus Necrodes
Red-lined Carrion Beetle - Necrodes surinamensis - male Silphid - Necrodes surinamensis - male Red-lined Carrion Beetle - Necrodes surinamensis Red-lined Carrion Beetle - Necrodes surinamensis Necrodes surinamensis Necrodes surinamensis Necrodes surinamensis - male Necrodes surinamensis

Genus Necrophila
American Carrion Beetle (americana) - Necrophila americana - male - female American Carrion Beetle - Necrophila americana American Carrion Beetle - Necrophila americana American carrion beetle - Necrophila americana American Carrion Beetle - Necrophila americana Black and yellow unknown bug - Necrophila americana Fungi feeding Beetle - Necrophila americana American carrion beetle - Necrophila americana

Genus Nicrophorus - Sexton Beetles
Nicrophorus - Nicrophorus orbicollis Burying Beetle - Nicrophorus investigator Large beetle - Nicrophorus nigrita Nicrophorus orbicollis Black and Orange Beetle - Nicrophorus Nicrophorus americanus - female Nicrophorus americanus - male Black Burying Beetle - Nicrophorus nigrita

 
 
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