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Thanatophilus
Sign in to saveThanatophilus is a genus of carrion beetles in the family Silphidae. There are about 12 described species in Thanatophilus. thumb|Thanatophilus trituberculatus
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 92
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Collections
- UCM, DMNS, UNM, NMSU, AM, UA
- Recorded in
- United States, Cote D'Ivoire, South Africa, Russia
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Thanatophilus is a genus of carrion beetles in the family Silphidae. There are about 12 described species in Thanatophilus. thumb|Thanatophilus trituberculatus
==Species== These 12 species belong to the genus Thanatophilus: Thanatophilus coloradensis (Wickham, 1902) Thanatophilus dispar (Herbst, 1793) Thanatophilus ferrugatus (Solsky, 1874) Thanatophilus lapponicus (Herbst, 1793) (northern carrion beetle) Thanatophilus ruficornis (Kuster, 1851) Thanatophilus rugosus (Linnaeus, 1758) Thanatophilus sagax (Mannerheim, 1853) Thanatophilus sinuatus (Fabricius, 1775) Thanatophilus terminatus (Hummel, 1825) Thanatophilus trituberculatus (Kirby, 1837) Thanatophilus truncatus (Say, 1823) Thanatophilus uralensis Kozminykh, 1994
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