覆葬甲屬(學名:),又名斑紋埋葬蟲屬,是埋葬虫科的一個屬,是一種腐食性昆蟲,會搬運已死亡的動物屍體至其巢中,並用消化液使屍體變成一團球,供幼蟲食用。
與其他真社會性動物物種(如:螞蟻、蜜蜂等)相比,照顧幼蟲在昆蟲很罕見,所以埋葬蟲的等性在昆蟲界來說可以是一個異數。這種行為昆蟲學家稱之為亞社會性動物。
物種
,有文獻紀錄的Nicrophorus物種有68種,分別如下:
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|美洲覆葬甲 |Nicrophorus americanus |
||Nicrophorus antennatus |
||Nicrophorus apo |
||Nicrophorus argutor |
||Nicrophorus basalis |
||Nicrophorus carolinus |
|智利负葬甲 |Nicrophorus chilensis |
|大黑埋葬蟲 |Nicrophorus concolor |
||Nicrophorus encaustus |
|大负葬甲 |Nicrophorus fossor |Encshas
||Nicrophorus germanicus |
||Nicrophorus guttula |
||Nicrophorus heurni |
||Nicrophorus hispaniola |
||Nicrophorus humator |
||Nicrophorus hybridus |
||Nicrophorus insularis |
||Nicrophorus interruptus |
||Nicrophorus investigator |
|日本埋葬蟲 |Nicrophorus japonicus |
- 覆葬甲屬
外部連結
[http://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeys/Home/keys-to-coleoptera/silphidae/KeytotheBritishspeciesofgenusNicrophorus.pdf?attredirects=0 Key to the British species of Nicrophorus*]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20050310225611/http://collections2.eeb.uconn.edu/nicroweb/nicrophorus.htm Nicrophorus* Central]
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/science/burying-beetle-sex-pheromones.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below Sexual behavior of burying beetles] , NYTimes, 2016
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