NEW NEBRASKA OCCURRENCES OF THE ENDANGERED AMERICAN BURYING BEETLE (COLEOPTERA: SILPHIDAE)

Authors

Brett C. Ratcliffe, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Mary Liz Jameson, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

January 1992

Comments

Published in The Coleopterists Bulletin, 46(4):421-425. 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Mary Liz Jameson and Brett C. Ratcliffe. Used by permission.

Abstract

Six new records for the endangered American burying beetle, Nicrophorus americanus Olivier, are reported from the Nebraska Sandhills. Nebraska is one of only four states in the United States where this beetle remains extant.