Family Silphidae

The carrion beetles

Subfamily Silphinae

Necrodes Leach

• N. surinamensis Fabricius, USA, FL (s to DAD, MON - 1 record (Key Largo - not established ?))

Necrophila Kirby and Spence

• N. americana (Linnaeus), eUS, FL (s to DAD)

Oiceoptoma Leach

• O. inaequale (Fabricius), eUS, FL (s to PAL)
• *O. novaboracense (Forster), eUS, FL?
• O. rugulosum Portevin, seUS, FL (s to LEE)

Subfamily Nicrophorinae

Nicrophorus Fabricius

• N. americanus Olivier, eUS, FL (ALA); there are no modern Florida records of this endangered species and it probably no longer exists in Florida
• N. carolinus (Linnaeus), c, sw and seUS, FL (s to PAL)
• N. marginatus Fabricius, across US to AL, NC, FL, Mexico
• N. orbicollis Say, eUS, FL (s to DAD)
• N. pustulatus (Herschel), eUS, FL (s to CHA)
• N. tomentosus Weber, e and c US, FL (JAC)

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