Necrophila

{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}

{{Distinguish|text=Necrophilia, the act of having sex with a corpse}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Necrophila americana (Linnaeus) pair.jpg

| image_caption = Necrophila americana male (left) and female

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Necrophila

| authority = Kirby & Spence 1828

| synonyms =

Necrobora Hope, 1840

Necrotropha Gistel, 1848

Eusilpha Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1891

Calosilpha Portevin, 1920

Deutosilpha Portevin, 1920

Chrysosilpha Portevin, 1921

Eosilpha Peck, 2001 (Missp.)

}}

Necrophila is a genus of carrion beetles, with around 20 species:{{Cite web|title=Necrophila species|url=https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4763110.html|website=mindat}} most found in Asia, and one species in North America, Necrophila americana.{{cite journal|title=The Carrion Beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Nebraska|first=Brett|last=Ratcliffe|journal=Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum|year=1996|volume=13|pages=30–31|url=http://museum.unl.edu/pubs/CarrionBeetlesOfNE-Ratcliffe1996.pdf#page=36|access-date=2015-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629103847/http://museum.unl.edu/pubs/CarrionBeetlesOfNE-Ratcliffe1996.pdf#page=36|archive-date=2016-06-29|url-status=dead}}