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

Genus Rhizophagus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Monotomid 2 - Rhizophagus dimidiatus Monotomid - Rhizophagus remotus Rhizophagus - Rhizophagus sayi Rhizophagus - Rhizophagus grouvellei Rhizophagus parallelocollis rotten wood beetle - Rhizophagus sayi Uncertain... - Rhizophagus Rhizophagus - Rhizophagus grouvellei
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)
Genus Rhizophagus
Explanation of Names
Rhizophagus Herbst 1793
Numbers
14 spp. in 3 subgenera in our area, >50 in 4 subgenera total (of which 40 in the nominate subgenus)(1)(2)
Identification
review/key to spp. in(3)
Range
temperate & boreal zones of the Holarctic & n. Oriental regions(1)
Remarks
the only member of its subfamily (Rhizophaginae Redtenbacher 1845)(2)

not yet in guide:
R. (Anomophagus) galbus, pseudobrunneus (both western);
R. (Rhizophagus) approximatus (eastern), procerus (southwestern), pusillus (appalachian).
Internet References
Taxon profile(4)
Genus page(5)
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.A review of the North American species of Rhizophagus Herbst and a revision of the Nearctic members of the subgenus Anomophagus
Bousquet Y. 1990. Can. Entomol. 122: 131-171.
4.University of Alberta Entomology Collection
5.McElrath T., Boyd O., McHugh J.V. (2014-) MonotomID
Contributed by tom murray on 5 February, 2006 - 8:55pm
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 28 March, 2024 - 11:35am

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