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Sexton Beetle? - Nicrophorus hebes

Sexton Beetle? - Nicrophorus hebes
Volo Bog SNA, Lake County, Illinois, USA
September 26, 2012

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Prob N. hebes
The bog habitat is also a clue (and the short black band of the epipleuron) see Sikes, D.S, S. T. Trumbo, S.B. Peck. 2016. Cryptic diversity in the New World burying beetle fauna: Nicrophorus hebes Kirby, 1837; new status as a resurrected name (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 74(3): 299-309. https://www.senckenberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/05_asp_74_3_sikes_299-309.pdf

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