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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

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Works Cited

Monotomidae - Bactridium sp.? - Bactridium ephippigerum

A dark Monotomid.... - Monotoma americana

Bactridium ephippigerum? - Bactridium californicum

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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