Cryptic diversity in the New World burying beetle fauna: Nicrophorus hebes Kirby; new status as a resurrected name (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae)
Burying beetles (Silphidae: Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775) are known for their biparental care and monopolization of small vertebrate carcasses in subterranean crypts. They have been the focus of intense behavioral ecological research since the 1980s and the New World fauna was taxonomically revised i...
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ftcarletonunivir:oai:carleton.ca:19257 2023-05-15T17:46:41+02:00 Cryptic diversity in the New World burying beetle fauna: Nicrophorus hebes Kirby; new status as a resurrected name (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae) Sikes, D.S. (Derek S.) Trumbo, S.T. (Stephen T.) Peck, S. (Stewart) 2016-01-01 https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/19257 en eng https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/19257 Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny vol. 74 no. 3, pp. 299-309 Burying beetle Conservation DNA barcoding Nearctic Nicrophorinae Nicrophorus Nicrophorus vespilloides Silphidae Synonymy info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2016 ftcarletonunivir 2022-02-06T21:50:28Z Burying beetles (Silphidae: Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775) are known for their biparental care and monopolization of small vertebrate carcasses in subterranean crypts. They have been the focus of intense behavioral ecological research since the 1980s and the New World fauna was taxonomically revised in the 1980s. Here, with new molecular, ecological, reproductive incompatability, and morphological data, we report the discovery that N. vespilloides in most of North America, except Alaska + Yukon + Northwest Territories, is not conspecific with Old World N. vespilloides. DNA barcode data split this species into two BINs, each shows different habitat preferences, most larvae from hybrid crosses fail to reach four days of age, and diagnostic characters were found on the epipleuron and metepisternum that help to separate the species. The oldest available name for this other set of North American populations is Nicrophorus hebes Kirby, 1837, which we now treat as valid (new status). This study brings the New World total to 22 species for the genus, and given the rarity of N. hebes, and its tight association with wetlands, justifies further investigation into its conservation status. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northwest Territories Alaska Yukon Carleton University's Institutional Repository Northwest Territories Yukon |
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Burying beetle Conservation DNA barcoding Nearctic Nicrophorinae Nicrophorus Nicrophorus vespilloides Silphidae Synonymy |
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Burying beetle Conservation DNA barcoding Nearctic Nicrophorinae Nicrophorus Nicrophorus vespilloides Silphidae Synonymy Sikes, D.S. (Derek S.) Trumbo, S.T. (Stephen T.) Peck, S. (Stewart) Cryptic diversity in the New World burying beetle fauna: Nicrophorus hebes Kirby; new status as a resurrected name (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae) |
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Burying beetle Conservation DNA barcoding Nearctic Nicrophorinae Nicrophorus Nicrophorus vespilloides Silphidae Synonymy |
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Burying beetles (Silphidae: Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775) are known for their biparental care and monopolization of small vertebrate carcasses in subterranean crypts. They have been the focus of intense behavioral ecological research since the 1980s and the New World fauna was taxonomically revised in the 1980s. Here, with new molecular, ecological, reproductive incompatability, and morphological data, we report the discovery that N. vespilloides in most of North America, except Alaska + Yukon + Northwest Territories, is not conspecific with Old World N. vespilloides. DNA barcode data split this species into two BINs, each shows different habitat preferences, most larvae from hybrid crosses fail to reach four days of age, and diagnostic characters were found on the epipleuron and metepisternum that help to separate the species. The oldest available name for this other set of North American populations is Nicrophorus hebes Kirby, 1837, which we now treat as valid (new status). This study brings the New World total to 22 species for the genus, and given the rarity of N. hebes, and its tight association with wetlands, justifies further investigation into its conservation status. |
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Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Sikes, D.S. (Derek S.) Trumbo, S.T. (Stephen T.) Peck, S. (Stewart) |
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Sikes, D.S. (Derek S.) Trumbo, S.T. (Stephen T.) Peck, S. (Stewart) |
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Sikes, D.S. (Derek S.) |
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Cryptic diversity in the New World burying beetle fauna: Nicrophorus hebes Kirby; new status as a resurrected name (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae) |
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Cryptic diversity in the New World burying beetle fauna: Nicrophorus hebes Kirby; new status as a resurrected name (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae) |
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Cryptic diversity in the New World burying beetle fauna: Nicrophorus hebes Kirby; new status as a resurrected name (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae) |
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Cryptic diversity in the New World burying beetle fauna: Nicrophorus hebes Kirby; new status as a resurrected name (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae) |
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Cryptic diversity in the New World burying beetle fauna: Nicrophorus hebes Kirby; new status as a resurrected name (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae) |
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cryptic diversity in the new world burying beetle fauna: nicrophorus hebes kirby; new status as a resurrected name (coleoptera: silphidae: nicrophorinae) |
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Northwest Territories Alaska Yukon |
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Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny vol. 74 no. 3, pp. 299-309 |
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