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Monotomidae

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Description

Monotomidae is a family of beetles in the suborder Polyphaga, containing the following genera:

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotomidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4745	https://www.gbif.org/species/4745
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	346395	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=346395

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Monotomidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Coleopterida	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
order	Coleoptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
superfamily	Cucujoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Monotomidae	Laporte 1840

Common Name

root eating beetle

Scientific Name

Monotomidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Monotomidae	family	belongs to Cucujoidea	stated without evidence	Lawrence and Newton, 1995
Monotomidae	family	belongs to Cucujoidea	stated with evidence	Bouchard et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

10 (34%)

First Recorded Appearance

166 - 157 Ma
Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. L. Laporte. 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères; avec une Introduction Renfermant l’Anatomie et la Physiologie des Animaux Articulés, par M. Brullé. Tome Deuxième

Common Name(s)

Root Eating Beetle, Gråbaggar, Root-eating Beetles

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotomidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Monotominae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		19	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Rhizophaginae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Aneurops genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Bactridium genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cretakarenni ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Crowsonius genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Europs genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Hesperobaenus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Jurorhizophagus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Leptipsius genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Macreurops genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mimemodes genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Monotoma genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phyconomus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pycnotomina genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rhizobactron ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Rhizophagoides genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rhizophagus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Rhizophtoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Shoguna genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thione genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hesperobaemus alternatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1845	Rhizophagidae Redtenbacher
1981	Rhizophagidae Crowson p. 697
1995	Monotomidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2011	Monotomidae Bouchard et al.
2015	Monotomidae Robertson et al.
2019	Monotomidae Jiang et al. p. 8

References

Laporte F. L. , Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères; avec une Introduction Renfermant l’Anatomie et la Physiologie des Animaux Articulés, par M. Brullé. Tome Deuxième, 1-563

Crowson R. A. (1981) The Biology of the Coleoptera, Academic Press, New York

Lawrence J. F., Newton, Jr. A. F. (1995) Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera, Biology, Phylogeny and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A Crowson, 779-1006

Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., et al (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, 1-972

Robertson J. A., Ślipiński A., et al (2015) Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia), Systematic Entomology 40, 745-778

Jiang R. X., Liu Z. H., et al (2019) Fossil evidence for sexual dimorphism in Monotomidae beetles from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, Cretaceous Research 102, 7-11

Bouchard, P.; Bousquet, Y.; Davies, A.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M.; Lawrence, J.; Lyal, C.; Newton, A.; Reid, C.; Schmitt, M.; Slipinski, A.; Smith, A. (2011). Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys. 88: 1-972. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Fauna Europaea - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Bousquet, Yves / Arnett, Jr., Ross H., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. Howard Frank, eds., 2002: Family 79. Monotomidae Laporte 1840. American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. 319-321. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds., 1995: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2. 779-1006. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al., 2011: Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys, vol. 88. 1-972. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Robertson, James A., Adam Slipinski, Matthew Moulton, Floyd W. Shockley, Adriano Giorgi, et al., 2015: Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Systematic Entomology, vol. 40, no. 4. 745-778. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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