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For the species misidentified by Gyllenhal in 1827 and declared a new species under the name Nicrophorus sepultor, but later corrected, see Nicrophorus vestigator

Nicrophorus sepultor
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Silphidae
Genus:	Nicrophorus
Species:	N. sepultor
Binomial name
Nicrophorus sepultor Charpentier, 1825
Synonyms
Necrophorus sepultor Charpentier, 1825 Necrophorus obrutor Erichson, 1837

Nicrophorus sepultor is a burying beetle described by Toussaint de Charpentier in 1825. It has a Palearctic distribution from Europe to central Asia.

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.

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