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Species Monotoma americana

Root-eating Beetle? - Monotoma americana

Monotoma americana In Maryland - Monotoma americana - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cucujoidea

Family Monotomidae (Minute Clubbed Beetles)

Subfamily Monotominae

Genus Monotoma

Species americana (Monotoma americana)

Explanation of Names

Monotoma americana Aubé 1837

Size

1.9‒2.4 mm(1)

Range

transcontinental (NB‒QC‒ON to FL‒TX‒CA)(1)(2)(3)

Works Cited

1.	Taxonomic review of the Canadian species of the genus Monotoma Herbst (Coleoptera: Monotomidae) Bousquet Y., LaPlante S. (1999). 2000. Proc. Ent. Soc. Ontario 130: 67-96.

2.	Further contributions to the Coleoptera fauna of New Brunswick with an addition to the fauna of Nova Scotia, Canada Webster R.P., Webster V.L., Alderson C.A., Hughes C.C., Sweeney J.D. 2016. Zookeys 573: 265-338.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 16 November, 2008 - 6:33pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 30 August, 2023 - 4:12pm

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