Nicrophorini

Nicrophorini is a tribe of burying beetles or carrion beetles in the subfamily Silphinae. It was formerly treated as subfamily Nicrophorinae within family Silphidae, but this family was found to be nested in family Staphylinidae in phylogenetic analyses and Silphidae was reassigned as a subfamily Staphylinidae.

Genera
This beetle tribe contains the following genera:

Extant genera

 * Eonecrophorus Kurosawa, 1985
 * Nicrophorus Fabricius, 1775
 * Proscapheus
 * Ptomascopus Kraatz, 1876

Extinct genera

 * †Cretosaja Sohn, Jae-Cheon & Gi Soo Nam, 2021
 * †Palaeosilpha Flach, 1890