Margined Carrion Beetle - Home and Garden IPM from Cooperative Extension - University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Margined Carrion Beetle (Oiceoptoma noveboracense) (Etna, ME; 4/11/2010) The Margined Carrion Beetle (Oiceoptoma noveboracense) belongs to a family of carrion beetles called Silphidae. It has a salmon-colored ‘margin’ along the sides and edges of its mostly black thorax (the wide shield-like section between its head and abdomen). By contrast, the