Silphidae (carrion beetles)

Note that this family has recently been downgraded to a subfamily (or two?) of Staphylinidae. At some point I will udpate this site accordingly but for now it still treats it as a distinct family.

Necrodes littoralis

Red-breasted Carrion Beetle Oiceoptoma thoracicum

Black Snail Beetle Phosphuga atrata

Silpha tristis

Common Sexton Beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

Common Burying Beetle Nicrophorus vespillo

Nicrophorus investigator

Black Sexton Beetle Nicrophorus humator