Cryptic diversity in the New World burying beetle fauna: Nicrophorus hebes Kirby- new status as a resurrected name (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae)

Derek Sikes; Stephen T. Trumbo; Stewart B. Peck

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Comment (Case 3767) – Opposition to the conservation of prevailing usage of the specific name Papilio phoebus Fabricius, 1793 and that of Doritis ariadne Lederer, 1853 (currently Parnassius ariadne) by the designation of a neotype (see BZN 76: 14–22 [Case]). The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 77: 86.

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James F. Welch, Bryan Windmiller, John Berkholtz (2023)
Observation of the Uncommon Burying Beetle Nicrophorus hebes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Silphinae), Feeding on a Dead Blanding's Turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) in Massachusetts. Northeastern Naturalist 30: .

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Julia Canitz, Derek S. Sikes, Wayne Knee, Julia Baumann, Petra Haftaro, Nadine Steinmetz, Martin Nave, Anne‐Katrin Eggert, Wenbe Hwang, Volker Nehring (2022)
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Ahva L. Potticary, Mark C. Belk, J. Curtis Creighton, Minobu Ito, Rebecca Kilner, Jan Komdeur, Nick J. Royle, Dustin R. Rubenstein, Matthew Schrader, Sheng‐Feng Shen, Derek S. Sikes, Per T. Smiseth, Rosemary Smith, Sandra Steiger, Stephen T. Trumbo, Allen J. Moore (2024)
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Stephen T. Trumbo (2022)
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Andrew Martin Catherall-Ostler (2025)
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