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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Minute Clubbed Beetles (Monotomidae)

Family Monotomidae - Minute Clubbed Beetles

Representative Images

Pycnotomina cavicolle Monotomid - Hesperobaenus rufipes Tiny Beetle - Europs pallipennis Monotoma picipes from Germany - Monotoma picipes Coleoptera - Bactridium striolatum Another Rhizophagus? - Rhizophagus remotus Small beetle - Rhizophagus sayi Monotomid caught in red wine trap - Rhizophagus minutus

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)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Rhizophagidae Redtenbacher 1845

Explanation of Names

Monotomidae Laporte 1840

Numbers

two subfamilies, with 55 spp. in 11 genera north of Mexico(1) and ~250 spp. in 35 genera worldwide(2)(3)
9 spp. in 2 genera in Maritime Canada(4)
Overview of our fauna
Family Monotomidae
Subfamily RHIZOPHAGINAE Rhizophagus

Subfamily MONOTOMINAE
Tribe Monotomini Monotoma
Tribe Thionini Thione
Tribe Europini Bactridium · Pycnotomina · Leptipsius · Hesperobaenus · Europs · Aneurops · Macreurops · Phyconomus
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Size

1.5‒6.0 mm(2)

Identification

photos of southeastern spp. in (5)

Range

worldwide and throughout NA(1)

Food

predaceous or mycophagous(2)

See Also

Works Cited

1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Tree of Life - Monotomidae
3.McElrath T., Boyd O., McHugh J.V. (2014-) MonotomID
4.Monotomidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada
Majka C.G., Bousquet Y. 2010. J. Acad. Entomol. Soc. 6: 1-8.
5.Undocumented beetle diversity in the Southeastern United States: a case study of the minute clubbed beetles (Col.: Monotomidae)
McElrath T.C., McHugh J.V. . 2018. Zootaxa 4472: 127–140.
Contributed by tom murray on 5 February, 2006 - 8:55pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov, roar, Tyler Hedlund
Last updated 30 August, 2023 - 5:22pm

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