Monommatini

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Monommatini
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Zopheridae
Subfamily: Zopherinae
Tribe: Monommatini
Blanchard, 1845
Type genus
Monomma
Klug, 1833

Monommatini is a tribe of beetles known as monommatid beetles. [1] They are in the ironclad beetle family, Zopheridae. There are about 15 genera and 300 described species in Monommatini. They are found worldwide, with the greatest diversity in Madagascar. [1] [2] They are commonly associated with rotting plant matter such as the dry rotting cambium of trees. [1]

Taxonomy

Monommatini has been considered a family (Monommatidae) [1] and subfamily (Monommatinae) in the past, but is now treated as a tribe in the subfamily Zopherinae. [3] [4]

Related Research Articles

Colydiinae Subfamily of beetles

Colydiinae is a subfamily of beetles, commonly known as cylindrical bark beetles. They have been treated historically as a family Colydiidae, but have been moved into the Zopheridae, where they constitute the bulk of the diversity of the newly expanded family, with about 140 genera worldwide. They are diverse for example in the Australian region, from where about 35 genera are known; in Europe, though, only 20 genera are found and many of these only with few species.

Zopherinae Subfamily of beetles

Zopherinae is a subfamily of beetles, commonly known as ironclad beetles. Together with the subfamily Usechinae, they have been treated historically as a family, but have recently been joined by several additional taxa, making the Zopheridae a much larger composite family, and the Zopherinae are now only a small component within it, consisting of seven genera in the tribe Zopherini and one, Phellopsis in its own tribe (Phellopsini).

Namunaria is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There are at least two described species in Namunaria.

Phloeonemus is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There are at least three described species in Phloeonemus.

<i>Microprius</i> Genus of beetles

Microprius is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There are at least two described species in Microprius.

Denophoelus is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There is one described species in Denophoelus, D. nosodermoides.

Pseudocorticus is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There is one described species in Pseudocorticus, P. blairi.

Eudesma is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There is one described species in Eudesma, E. undulata.

Aspathines is a genus of opossum beetles in the family Zopheridae. There is at least one described species in Aspathines, A. aeneus.

Megataphrus is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There are at least three described species in Megataphrus.

Rhagodera is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There are at least four described species in Rhagodera.

<i>Colobicus</i> Genus of beetles

Colobicus is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There are at least four described species in Colobicus.

Lobogestoria is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There is one described species in Lobogestoria, L. gibbicollis.

Acolobicus is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There is one described species in Acolobicus, A. erichsoni.

Monoedus is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There are about eight described species in Monoedus.

Usechimorpha is a genus of ironclad beetles in the family Zopheridae. There are at least three described species in Usechimorpha.

<i>Coxelus</i> Genus of beetles

Coxelus is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There are about 10 described species in Coxelus.

Usechus is a genus of ironclad beetles in the family Zopheridae. There are at least two described species in Usechus.

Nematidium is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There are at least three described species in Nematidium.

Eucicones is a genus of cylindrical bark beetles in the family Zopheridae. There are at least two described species in Eucicones.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN   978-0849309540.
  2. ↑ "Monommatini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  3. ↑ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys. Pensoft Publishers (88): 1–972. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   3088472 . PMID   21594053.
  4. ↑ Slipinski, Stanislaw Adam; Lawrence, John F. (1999). "Phylogeny and classification of Zopheridae sensu novo (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) with a review of the genera of Zopherinae (excluding Monommatini)". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa. 49 (1–2): 1–53. ISSN   0001-6454.


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