Oiceoptoma

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Silphidae
Subfamilia: Silphinae
Genus: Oiceoptoma
Synonyms (1): Isosilpha

Species (9): O. hypocritum – O. inaequale – O. nakabayashii – O. nigropunctatum – O. noveboracense – O. picescens – O. rugulosum – O. subrufum – O. thoracicum
Name

Oiceoptoma Leach, 1815
Gender: [neuter]
Type species: Silpha thoracica Linnaeus, 1758
Fixation: monotypy

References

Anderson, R.S.; Peck, S.B. 1985: The carrion beetles of Canada and Alaska (Coleoptera: Silphidae and Agyrtidae). The insects and arachnids of Canada, 13 . Research Branch Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, publication 1778, 121 pp. PDF
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
Růžička, J.; Háva, J.; Schneider, J. 2004: Revision of Palaearctic and Oriental Oiceoptoma (Coleoptera: Silphidae). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, 68: 30–51. PDF PDF of whole issue pp. 1-39 PDF of whole issue pp. 40-79

Links

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Vernacular names
čeština: Mrchožrout
English: carrion beetles

Oiceoptoma is a genus of carrion beetles.
Species

Oiceoptoma hypocritum
Oiceoptoma inaequale
Oiceoptoma nakabayashii
Oiceoptoma nigropunctatum
Oiceoptoma noveboracense
Oiceoptoma picescens
Oiceoptoma rugulosum
Oiceoptoma subrufum
Oiceoptoma thoracicum