Nicrophorus investigator

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| taxon = Nicrophorus investigator

| authority = Zetterstedt, 1824

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| Necrophorus [sic] investigator Zetterstedt, 1824

| Necrophorus [sic] maritimus Guérin-Ménéville, 1835

| Necrophorus [sic] ruspator Erichson, 1837

| Necrophorus [sic] Melsheimeri Kirby, 1837

| Necrophorus [sic] particeps Fischer von Waldheim, 1844

| Necrophorus [sic] aleuticus Gistel, 1848

| Necrophorus [sic] pollinctor Mannerheim, 1853

| Necrophorus [sic] infodiens Mannerheim, 1853

| Necrophorus [sic] confossor LeConte, 1854

| Necrophorus [sic] labiatus Motschulsky, 1860

| Necrophorus [sic] sibiricus Motschulsky, 1860

| Necrophorus [sic] microcephalus Thomson, 1862

| Silpha funeror Reitter, 1884

| Silpha praedator Reitter, 1887

| Necrophorus [sic] latifasciatus Lewis, 1887

| Necrophorus [sic] funerator Fauvel, 1890

| Necrophorus [sic] investigator v. intermedius Reitter, 1895

| Necrophorus [sic] interruptus v. submaculatus Reitter, 1895

| Necrophorus [sic] investigator v. variolosus Portevin, 1924

| Necrophorus [sic] baeckmanni Kieseritzky, 1930

| Necrophorus [sic] (Necropter) chryseus Mazokhin-Porshnyakov, 1953Sikes, D.S., Barclay, M.V.L. (2107) The Type of Nicrophorus chryseus Mazokhin-Porshnyakov, 1953 (Coleoptera: Silphidae) Rediscovered and a Commentary on “Accidental Taxonomy”. The Coleopterists Bulletin 71(4):721-726. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-71.4.721

| Necrophorus [sic] praedator insularis Lafer, 1989 (Preocc.)}}

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Nicrophorus investigator is a burying beetle first described by the Swedish naturalist Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt in 1824.