Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Tribe Europini

Pycnotomina cavicollis (Horn) - Pycnotomina cavicolle small flat beetle - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus Monotomid - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus Small beetle? - Macreurops longicollis Another bicolored beetle under bark - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus Monotomid? - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus Sonora2 J53 - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus unknown - Europs
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
Tribe Europini
Explanation of Names
Europini Sen Gupta 1988
Numbers
the largest group of the family, with 26 spp. in 7 genera in our area(1) and almost 150 spp. in 28 genera worldwide(2)
Range
cosmopolitan(2), incl. most of the US + se. & sw. Canada(1)
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