Nicrophorus confusus

Nicrophorus confusus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Silphidae
Genus:	Nicrophorus
Species:	N. confusus
Binomial name
	Nicrophorus confusus; Portevin, 1924
Synonyms
	N. sepultor confusus Kozminykh, 1993;

Nicrophorus confusus is a burying beetle described by Portevin in 1924 and determined, with reservation, to be a junior synonym of Nicrophorus sepultor by Sikes et al. (2008).^[1]

References

^ Sikes, Derek S.; Vamosi, Steven M.; Trumbo, Stephen T.; Ricketts, Marcia; Venables, Chandra (1 May 2008). "Molecular systematics and biogeography of Nicrophorus in part—The investigator species group (Coleoptera: Silphidae) using mixture model MCMC". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 48: 646–666.

Sikes, Derek S.; Madge, Ronald B.; Newton, Alfred F. (August 29, 2002). "A catalog of the Nicrophorinae (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of the world". Zootaxa. 65 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.65.1.1. ISBN 0-9582395-1-7. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 10, 2006.

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[1] Sikes, Derek S.; Vamosi, Steven M.; Trumbo, Stephen T.; Ricketts, Marcia; Venables, Chandra (1 May 2008). "Molecular systematics and biogeography of Nicrophorus in part—The investigator species group (Coleoptera: Silphidae) using mixture model MCMC". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 48: 646–666.

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