Species Monotoma picipes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited

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 picipes (Monotoma picipes)

Explanation of Names

Monotoma picipes Herbst 1793

Identification

deep longitudinal impressions on the frons are diagnostic(1)

Range

worldwide (and throughout NA), but probably of Palaearctic origin(1)(2); arguably, the commonest species of the genus across most of Eurasia

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.	Monotomidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada Majka C.G., Bousquet Y. 2010. J. Acad. Entomol. Soc. 6: 1-8.

Contributed by Tim Moyer on 11 December, 2008 - 8:27pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 16 January, 2013 - 1:47pm

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