Necrobia

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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cleridae
Subfamily: Korynetinae
Genus: Necrobia
Latreille, 1797 [1]

Necrobia is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Cleridae. [2]

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. [2]

Species: [2]

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References

  1. Bousquet, Y. (2018). "The dating of the fourth volume of Guillaume-Antoine Olivier's "Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des insectes"". ZooKeys (734): 137–148. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.734.22901 . PMC   5904342 .
  2. 1 2 3 "Necrobia Olivier, 1800". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 5 March 2021.