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Nicrophorus morio

species of beetle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ10801255 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nicrophorus morio is a burying beetle described by Gebler in 1817.

References

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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.65.1.1. ISBN 0-9582395-1-7.

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“Nicrophorus morio” enters the record as species of beetle. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nicrophorus, morio and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1817, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nicrophorus, morio and species.
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Why this record matters

“Nicrophorus morio” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nicrophorus, morio and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10801255. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1817 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nicrophorus morio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.