Silphinae is a subfamily of burying beetles or carrion beetles. There are 113 extant species of this subfamily, in two tribe and in 14 genera. It contains the following tribes and genera:Biolib
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Tribes and genera

* Necrodini Portevin, 1926 ** '' Diamesus'' Hope, 1840 ** ''

Necrodes ''Necrodes'' is a genus of carrion beetles in the family Silphidae. There are at least four described species in ''Necrodes''. Species These four species belong to the genus ''Necrodes'': * '' Necrodes littoralis'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * '' Necro ...

'' Leach, 1815 * Silphini Latreille, 1806 ** '' Ablattaria'' Reitter, 1884 ** ''

Aclypea ''Aclypea'' is a genus of carrion beetles in the family Silphidae. There are 11 described species in ''Aclypea''.
Biolib

'' Reitter, 1884 ** ''

Dendroxena ''Dendroxena'' is a genus of beetles in the family Silphidae. The genus was described in 1858 by Victor Motschulsky Victor Ivanovich Motschulsky (sometimes Victor von Motschulsky, russian: link=no, Виктор Иванович Мочульс� ...

'' Motschulsky, 1858 ** ''

Heterosilpha ''Heterosilpha'' is a genus of carrion beetles in the family Silphidae. There are at least two described species in ''Heterosilpha''. Species These two species belong to the genus ''Heterosilpha'': * '' Heterosilpha aenescens'' (Casey, 1886) * ...

'' Portevin, 1926 ** '' Heterotemna'' Wollaston, 1864 ** ''

Necrophila ''Necrophila'' is a genus of carrion beetles, with around 20 species: most found in Asia, and one species in North America, '' Necrophila americana''. Species * '' Necrophila americana'' * ''Necrophila andrewesi * ''Necrophila brunnicollis'' * ...

'' Kirby & Spence, 1828 ** '' Oiceoptoma'' Leach, 1815 ** '' Oxelytrum'' Gistel, 1848 ** ''

Phosphuga ''Phosphuga'' is a European genus of carrion beetle, whose sole member is the species ''Phosphuga atrata''. The beetle is up to 15mm long and has an elongated neck that it uses to reach into snail shells, which it sprays with a digestive fluid. T ...

'' Leach, 1817 ** '' Ptomaphila'' Kirby & Spence, 1828 ** ''

Silpha ''Silpha'' is a genus of the family Silphidae, or carrion beetles, native to the Old World, with one species that is adventive in Canada.
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'' Linnaeus, 1758 ** ''

Thanatophilus ''Thanatophilus'' is a genus of carrion beetles in the family Silphidae. There are about 12 described species in ''Thanatophilus''. Species These 12 species belong to the genus ''Thanatophilus'': * ''Thanatophilus coloradensis'' (Wickham, 1902 ...

'' Leach, 1815 ** ''

Allopliosilpha ''Allopliosilpha inclavata'' is an extinct species of Silphidae, carrion beetle that lived during the Middle Pliocene. First described scientifically by Gersdorf in 1971, ''A. inclavata'' is the only species in the genus ''Allopliosilpha''. Refe ...

'' Gersdorf, 1969 ** '' Pliosilpha'' Gersdorf, 1970

References

Silphidae Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille {{Silphidae-stub