SILPHINAE Latreille, 1807
(a subfamily of sexton beetles)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Dendroxena quadrimaculata
a sexton beetle
Species 1 ident. refs
Necrodes littoralis
Shore Sexton Beetle
(Click to open)
 		Species 11 images
Oiceoptoma thoracicum
Red-breasted Carrion Beetle
(Click to open)
 		Species 6 images
Phosphuga
a genus of sexton beetles
(Click to open)
 		Genus 1 subtaxa 10 images
Silpha
a genus of sexton beetles
Larva (Click to open)
 		Genus 1 subtaxa 7 images 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
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)

SILPHINAE (a subfamily of sexton beetles) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for SILPHINAE (a subfamily of sexton beetles)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for SILPHINAE (a subfamily of sexton beetles)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)