Silpha tristis Illiger, 1798
(a sexton beetle)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesSilpha tristis (a sexton beetle)
GenusSilpha (a genus of sexton beetles)
SubfamilySILPHINAE (a subfamily of sexton beetles)
FamilySILPHIDAE (sexton beetles)
SuperfamilySTAPHYLINOIDEA (rove, sexton and featherwing beetles)
Series Staphyliniformia (burying beetles, carrion beetles, rove beetles etc.)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of Silpha tristis (a sexton beetle) :
1: Silpha tristis (a sexton beetle)
24 Aug 2002 OSGR: SU46 51° 20’ N, 1° 20’ W Vice County: Berks (VC 22) England
larva on path . Photos: larva
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Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Cooter, J. & Barclay M.V.L. (eds) 2006 A Coleopterist’s handbook The Amateur Entomolgist, 11, Fourth Edition edition, 439pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society

Silpha tristis (a sexton beetle) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Silpha tristis (a sexton beetle)
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