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Genus Monotoma

small Monotomidae - Monotoma longicollis Monotoma longicollis (Gyllenhal) - Monotoma longicollis Monotoma Monotoma americana? - Monotoma emarginata - male Monotoma Monotomid? - Monotoma testacea Small beetle - Monotoma Beetle - Monotoma
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
Explanation of Names
Monotoma Herbst 1793
Numbers
>15 spp. in our area(1), 40 total(2)
Identification
Key to spp. in Bousquet & LaPlante (1999)(1) -- covers all the described species from our area except for the southern M. texana and M. mucida
Photos of several spp. of European origin in(3)
Range
worldwide and throughout NA(1)
Habitat
plant debris, ant nests, stored products, sometimes under bark(1)(4)
Remarks
the only member of its tribe(2)