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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Oiceoptoma

Ridged Carrion Beetle - Oiceoptoma inaequale Silphidae, Margined Carrion Beetle, dorsal - Oiceoptoma noveboracense Oeceoptoma noveboracense larvae and a mystery larvae on cow skull - Oiceoptoma noveboracense Oiceoptoma inaequale Margined Carrion Oiceoptoma noveboracense - Oiceoptoma noveboracense Pennsylvania Beetle  - Oiceoptoma noveboracense Oiceoptoma inaequale Carrion beetle: Oiceoptoma inaequale or Thanatophilus sagax? - Oiceoptoma inaequale
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea
Family Silphidae (Carrion Beetles)
Genus Oiceoptoma
Explanation of Names
Oiceoptoma Leach 1815
Numbers
3 spp. in our area, 7 total(1)
Range
holarctic(1)
Works Cited
1.The Carrion Beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Nebraska
Brett Ratcliffe. 1996. University of Nebraska State Museum.