Nicrophorini is a tribe of burying beetles or carrion beetles in the subfamily Silphinae.

[1] 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.

[2] This beetle tribe contains the following genera:[1]

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