page_title: Nicrophorus interruptus
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Nicrophorus interruptus / Description
caption_attribution_description: Silphidae - Nicrophorus interruptus
context_page_description: Nicrophorus interruptus is a species of burying beetle or sexton beetle belonging to the family Silphidae subfamily Nicrophorinae.
context_section_description: The adults grow up to 26 millimetres (1.0 in) long. They are mostly black with two orange-red markings on the elytra and a yellow pubescence on protruding abdominal segments. They are also characterized by the absence of hairs on the thorax and straight tibias on the hind legs.
  The front and posterior orange-red markings on the elytra are separated from one another at the suture. They have large club-like antennae equipped with black and reddish tips containing chemoreceptors, capable of detecting a dead animal from a long way away.
caption: Lateral view
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