Nicrophorus maculifrons

Nicrophorus maculifrons
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Silphidae
Subfamily:	Nicrophorinae
Tribe:	Nicrophorini
Genus:	Nicrophorus
Species:	N. maculifrons
Binomial name
*Nicrophorus maculifrons* Kraatz, 1877
Synonyms
N. maculiceps, Reitter, 1895 N. maculifrons karafutonis, Kôno, 1929 N. m. parvulus, Kozminykh, 1993 N. m. quadripuntatus, Fairmaire, 1891 N. (Necropter) maculifrons parvulus, Hlisnikovský, 1964 N. nepalensis maculifrons, Heyne & Taschenberg, 1908 Silpha (Nicrophorus) maculiceps, Jakovlev, 1887

Nicrophorus maculifrons is a burying beetle described by Kraatz in 1877.

References

http://collections2.eeb.uconn.edu/nicroweb/PDFs/Sikes_et_al_2002.pdf

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