- Nicrophorus lunatus
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For the species misidentified by LeConte in 1853 and declared a new species under the name Nicrophorus lunatus, but later corrected, see Nicrophorus sayi
For the species misidentified by Gistel in 1857 and declared a new species under the name Nicrophorus lunatus, but later corrected, see Nicrophorus marginatus
Nicrophorus lunatus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Coleoptera Family: Silphidae Subfamily: Nicrophorinae Tribe: Nicrophorini Genus: Nicrophorus Species: N. lunatus Binomial name Nicrophorus lunatus
Fischer von Waldheim, 1842Synonyms - N. stenophtalma, Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1894
- N. (Necrophoriscus) lunatus, Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1933
- Silpha (Nicrophorus) stenophthalma, Jakovlev, 1887
Nicrophorus lunatus is a burying beetle described by Fischer von Waldheim in 1842.
References
http://collections2.eeb.uconn.edu/nicroweb/PDFs/Sikes_et_al_2002.pdf
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