Biology:Monommatini
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Short description: Tribe of beetles
| Monommatini | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Zopheridae |
| Subfamily: | Zopherinae |
| Tribe: | Monommatini Blanchard, 1845 |
| Type genus | |
| Monomma Klug, 1833
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Monommatini is a tribe of beetles known as monommatid beetles.[1] They are in the ironclad beetle family, Zopheridae. There are about 15 genera and 300 described species in Monommatini. They are found worldwide, with the greatest diversity in Madagascar.[1][2] They are commonly associated with rotting plant matter such as the dry rotting cambium of trees.[1]
Taxonomy
Monommatini has been considered a family (Monommatidae)[1] and subfamily (Monommatinae) in the past, but is now treated as a tribe in the subfamily Zopherinae.[3][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- ↑ "Monommatini Tribe Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/1041181. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
- ↑ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A. et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (Pensoft Publishers) (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMID 21594053.
- ↑ Slipinski, Stanislaw Adam; Lawrence, John F. (1999). "Phylogeny and classification of Zopheridae sensu novo (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) with a review of the genera of Zopherinae (excluding Monommatini)". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 49 (1–2): 1–53. ISSN 0001-6454.
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