Taxacom: Seeking DNA grade rare Nicrophorus species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae / Silphidae)

[Derek Sikes]

All,

I'm trying to get DNA from a small list of *Nicrophorus* species that
remain unsequenced. If any of you have access to recently collected
specimens of (or can collect) any of the species below, I would love to
borrow them for DNA barcoding. Most of these are rarely collected so my
chances are low, but I figured it's worth asking!

Also, I would be happy to take loans of specimens needing species IDs if
they are from any of the regions indicated below

*Southern Europe:*
Nicrophorus_vestigator (Spain etc.)
Nicrophorus_sepulchralis (N Italy, Greece etc.)

*SE Asia*
Nicrophorus_herscheli (N Sumatra)
Nicrophorus_reticulatus (Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands
archipelago)
Nicrophorus_efferens (Bougainville Island in the Solomon Islands
archipelago)

*Middle-Eastern Palearctic / Oriental*
Nicrophorus_ussuriensis (China, Korea, Russia: Ussuri)
Nicrophorus_basalis (Russia: eSiberia; nChina; Korea; Mongolia)
Nicrophorus_satanas (cRussia, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Pakistan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)
Nicrophorus_quadraticollis (China: Tibet, Sichuan, Heilongjiang; Korea;
Russia: Amur, Siberia, Ussuri)
Nicrophorus_mongolicus (Mongolia, Russia: Siberia, Tadzhikistan, Kazahkstan)
Nicrophorus_reichardti (Kyrgyzstan)
Nicrophorus_validus (Himalayas, India: Sikkim, Nepal, Tibet)

*South America*
Nicrophorus_chilensis (Chile & Argentina)

Please contact me off list.

Thanks & Happy Holidays!

Derek


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