Nicrophorini

Nicrophorini is a tribe of burying beetles or carrion beetles in the subfamily Silphinae.^[1] It was formerly treated as subfamily Nicrophorinae within family Silphidae, but this family was found to be nested in family Staphylinidae in phylogenetic analyses and Silphidae was reassigned as a subfamily Staphylinidae.^[2]

Nicrophorinae Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
American burying beetle
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
Family:	Silphidae
Subfamily:	Nicrophorinae
Tribe:	Nicrophorini Kirby, 1837
Extant genera
Eonecrophorus Nicrophorus Proscapheus Ptomascopus

Genera

This beetle tribe contains the following genera:^[1]

Extant genera

• Eonecrophorus Kurosawa, 1985
• Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775
• Proscapheus
• Ptomascopus Kraatz, 1876

Extinct genera

• †Cretosaja Sohn, Jae-Cheon & Gi Soo Nam, 2021
• †Palaeosilpha Flach, 1890