Nicrophorus humator (Gleditsch, 1767) is a animal in the Staphylinidae family, order Coleoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Nicrophorus humator (Gleditsch, 1767)
Nicrophorus humator is a Palearctic-distributed burying beetle first described by Gleditsch in 1767, with a 10,500-year-old fossil described in 1962.
Nicrophorus humator, a species of burying beetle, was first described by Gleditsch in 1767 under the original scientific name Silpha humator. This species has a Palearctic distribution that covers North Africa. A fossil of this species dated to approximately 10,500 years ago was described by Pearson in 1962.
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Ocypus aeneocephalus (De Geer, 1774)
Nicrophorus marginatus (Fabricius, 1801)
Oiceoptoma noveboracense (J.R.Forster, 1771)
Hadrotes crassus (Mannerheim, 1846)
Stenus clavicornis (Scopoli, 1763)
Necrodes littoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
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