Nicrophorus hispaniola

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Nicrophorus hispaniola
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Silphidae
Genus: Nicrophorus
Species:
N. hispaniola
Binomial name
Nicrophorus hispaniola
Sikes & Peck, 2000

Nicrophorus hispaniola is a burying beetle described by Sikes and Peck in 2000. It is endemic to the southwestern mountainous Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola. [1]

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References

  1. 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): 1–304. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.65.1.1 . Archived (PDF) from the original on September 10, 2006.