| Monommatini | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Zopheridae |
| Subfamily: | Zopherinae |
| Tribe: | Monommatini Blanchard, 1845 |
| Type genus | |
| Monomma Klug, 1833 | |
Monommatini is a tribe of beetles known as monommatid beetles. 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. They are commonly associated with rotting plant matter such as the dry rotting cambium of trees.
Taxonomy
Monommatini has been considered a family (Monommatidae) and subfamily (Monommatinae) in the past, but is now treated as a tribe in the subfamily Zopherinae.
References
- ^ Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- "Monommatini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. 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 (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. 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.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Monommatini | |
| Monommatidae | |
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