Nicrophorus lunatus

For the species misidentified by LeConte in 1853 and declared a new species under the name Nicrophorus lunatus, but later corrected, see Nicrophorus sayi

For the species misidentified by Gistel in 1857 and declared a new species under the name Nicrophorus lunatus, but later corrected, see Nicrophorus marginatus

Nicrophorus lunatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Silphidae
Subfamily: Nicrophorinae
Tribe: Nicrophorini
Genus: Nicrophorus
Species: N. lunatus
Binomial name
Nicrophorus lunatus
Fischer von Waldheim, 1842
Synonyms
  • N. stenophtalma, Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1894
  • N. (Necrophoriscus) lunatus, Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1933
  • Silpha (Nicrophorus) stenophthalma, Jakovlev, 1887

Nicrophorus lunatus is a burying beetle described by Fischer von Waldheim in 1842.

References

http://collections2.eeb.uconn.edu/nicroweb/PDFs/Sikes_et_al_2002.pdf


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