Monommatini | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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]
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]