Monommatini

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]

Monommatini
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Zopheridae
Subfamily:	Zopherinae
Tribe:	Monommatini Blanchard, 1845
Type genus
Monomma Klug, 1833

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. 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.
2. "Monommatini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
3. 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.
4. 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.