Thanatophilus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Silphidae
Subfamilia: Silphinae
Genus: Thanatophilus
Species: T. coloradensis – T. dentigerus – T. dispar – T. ferrugatus – T. grilati – T. lapponicus – T. latericarinatus – T. micans – T. minutus – T. pilosus – T. porrectus – T. roborowskyi – T. ruficornis – T. rugosus – T. sagax – T. sinuatus – T. terminatus – T. trituberculatus – T. truncatus – T. uralensis
Name

Thanatophilus Leach, 1815

Synonyms

Pseudopelta Bergroth, 1884
Philas Portevin, 1903

Thanatophilus trituberculatus

References

Leach, W.E. 1815. Entomology [pp. 57–172]. In: Brewster, D. (Ed). Brewster’s Edinburgh Encyclopedia. Volume IX [part I]. W. Blackwood, J. Waugh, etc., Edinburgh, 764 pp. BHL Reference page.
Anderson, R.S. and Peck, S.B. 1985: The Carrion Beetles of Canada and Alaska (Coleoptera: Silphidae and Agyrtidae). Research Branch Agriculture Canada, Ottawa.
Daniel, C.A., Midgley, J.M. & Villet, M.H. 2017. Determination of species and instars of the larvae of the Afrotropical species of Thanatophilus Leach, 1817 (Coleoptera, Silphidae). African Invertebrates 58(2): 1–10. DOI: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.12966 Reference page.
Kozminykh 1994: A new species of carrion beetles of the genus Thanatophilus (Coleoptera, Silphidae) from the southern Urals. Zoologicheskii zhurnal, 73(9): 161–165.
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

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Vernacular names
čeština: Mrchožrout
русский: Падальник

Thanatophilus is a genus of carrion beetles in the family Silphidae. There are about 12 described species in Thanatophilus.[1][2][3]

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

References

"Thanatophilus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
"Thanatophilus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

"Thanatophilus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.