Nicrophorus lunatus
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For the species misidentified by LeConte
in 1853 and declared a new species under the name Nicrophorus lunatus, but later corrected, see Nicrophorus sayi
For the species misidentified by Gistel
in 1857 and declared a new species under the name Nicrophorus lunatus, but later corrected, see Nicrophorus marginatus
Nicrophorus lunatus is a burying beetle
described by Fischer von Waldheim
in 1842.
LeConte
-People:* John Le Conte , scientist and first president of UC Berkeley* John Eatton Le Conte , naturalist* John Lawrence Le Conte , entomologist...
in 1853 and declared a new species under the name Nicrophorus lunatus, but later corrected, see Nicrophorus sayi
Nicrophorus sayi
Nicrophorus sayi is a burying beetle described by Laporte in 1840.-References:http://collections2.eeb.uconn.edu/nicroweb/PDFs/Sikes_et_al_2002.pdf...
For the species misidentified by Gistel
Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel
Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel (1809 - 1873 (or 1874) was a German naturalist.He was the author of works on entomology such as Die jetzt lebenden Entomologen, Kerffreunde und kerfsammler Europa’s und der...
in 1857 and declared a new species under the name Nicrophorus lunatus, but later corrected, see Nicrophorus marginatus
Nicrophorus marginatus
For the species misidentified by Gistel in 1857 and declared a new species under the name Nicrophorus marginatus, but later corrected, see Nicrophorus tomentosusNicrophorus marginatus is a burying beetle described by Fabricius in 1801....
Nicrophorus lunatus is a burying beetle
Burying beetle
Burying beetles or sexton beetles are the best-known members of the family Silphidae . Burying beetles are true to their name. Most of these beetles are black with red markings on the elytra . They bury the carcasses of small vertebrates such as birds and rodents as a food source for their larvae...
described by Fischer von Waldheim
Johann Fischer von Waldheim
Johann Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim was a German anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist....
in 1842.