Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Silphidae
Subfamilia: Silphinae
Genera):
Ablattaria –
Aclypea –
Dendroxena –
Diamesus –
Heterosilpha –
Necrodes –
Necrophila –
Oiceoptoma –
Oxelytrum –
Phosphuga –
Ptomaphila –
Silpha –
Thanatophilus –
?†Allopliosilpha –
?†Pliosilpha
Name
Silphinae Latreille, 1806
References
Primary references
- Latreille, P.A. 1806 [1807]. Genera crustaceorum et insectorum secundem ordinem naturalem in familias disposita, iconibus exemplisque plurimis explicata. Tomus secundus. Parisiis et Argentorati: A. Koenig, 280 pp. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
- Ikeda, H.; Kagaya, T.; Kubota, K.; Abe, T. 2008: Evolutionary relationships among food habit, loss of flight, and reproductive traits: life-history evolution in the Silphinae (Coleoptera: Silphidae). Evolution, 62: 2065–2079. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00432.x
- Ikeda, H.; Kubota, K.; Kagaya, T.; Abe, T. 2007: Flight capabilities and feeding habits of silphine beetles: are flightless species really "carrion beetles"? Ecological research, 22: 237–241. DOI: 10.1007/s11284-006-0012-1
- I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2004 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2: Hydrophiloidea-Staphylinoidea.
Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark ISBN 87-88757-74-9, p. 229 - Peck, S.B.; Anderson, R.S. 1985: Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the carrion beetles of Latin America (Coleoptera: Silphidae). Quaestiones entomologicae, 21: 247–317. PDF
- Sikes, D.S., Thayer, M.K. & Newton, A.F. 2024. Large carrion and burying beetles evolved from Staphylinidae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Silphinae): a review of the evidence. ZooKeys 1200: 159–182. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1200.122835
Reference page.
Links
- Sikes, Derek S., Stephen T. Trumbo, and Stewart B. Peck. 2005. Silphinae. Version 07 February 2005 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Silphinae/26994/2005.02.07 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/