Monotomidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Nitiduloidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Nitiduloidea

Familia: Monotomidae
Subfamiliae: Monotominae – Rhizophaginae – †Rhizophtominae

Name

Monotomidae Laporte, 1840

Type genus: Monotoma Herbst, 1793

Synonyms

Rhizophagidae Redtenbacher, 1845
- Type genus: Rhizophagus Herbst, 1793

References

Bousquet, Y. 2002: 79. MONOTOMIDAE Laporte 1840. Pp. 319-321 in: Arnett, R.H., jr.; Thomas, M.C.; Skelley, P.E.; Frank, J.H. (eds.): American beetles. Volume 2. Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida. limited preview
Bousquet, Y. 2010: 10.8. Monotomidae Laporte, 1840. Pp. 319-324 in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755
Jelínek, J. & Audisio, P. 2009. The Kateretidae, Nitidulidae and Monotomidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) described by Gistel (1856, 1857): new synonymies and type designations. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49(1): 225–238. PDF. Reference page.
Kirejtshuk, A.G.; Azar, D.; Tafforeau, P.; Boistel, R.; Fernandez, V. 2009: New beetles of Polyphaga (Coleoptera, Polyphaga) from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber. Denisia, 26: 119–130. Abstract
I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2007 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4: Elateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea and Cucujoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark ISBN 87-88757-67-6, p. 491
Sengupta, T. 1988: Review of the genera of the family Rhizophagidae (Clavicornia: Coleoptera) of the world. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India, 17(1): 1–58, plates I-XXIV.

Additional references

McElrath, T.C., Boyd, O.F. & McHugh, J.V. 2016. MonotomidGen – A matrix-based interactive key to the New World genera of Monotomidae (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea). ZooKeys 634: 47–55. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.634.9857 Reference page.

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Vernacular names

English: Root-eating Beetle
français: Monotomide