Nicrophorus humator

Black gravedigger ( Nicrophorus humator )

The Black gravedigger ( Nicrophorus humator ) is a type of the gravediggers ( Nicrophorus ) from the family of carrion beetles ( Silphidae ).

Features

The beetles are 18 to 26 millimeters long. Your body, especially the wing covers ( elytra ) and the pronotum is dyed black in most cases; very rare animals have blood-red spots on the elytra and the forehead. The elytra are slightly shorter than the abdomen, so let the rearmost part of it free. The sensor lobes are red-orange, very rarely they are also colored black. Unlike germanicus in the very similar way Nicrophorus the Epipleuren are the black gravedigger not red but black, also has the similar style all-black sensor.

Similar Species

• Nicrophorus germanicus

Occurrence

The animals come across the Palearctic north front to the north of Denmark and southern Scandinavia.

Way of life

Like all gravedigger lives this kind of carrion and uses carcasses to be buried by him, as a nesting beach. Sometimes, these animals also in mushrooms.