Subfamily Monotominae Laporte 1840 (root eating beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Monotomidae

Full reference: 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 1-563

Parent taxon: Monotomidae according to V. Alekseev and A. Bukejs 2025

See also Alekseev 2014, Alekseev and Bukejs 2022, Bouchard et al. 2011, Bukejs and Alekseev 2023, Cai et al. 2022, Crowson 1981, Jiang et al. 2019, Kupryjanowicz et al. 2020, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Liu et al. 2019 and Peris and Delclòs 2015

Sister taxa: Jurorhizophagus, Rhizophaginae

Subtaxa: Cretakarenniini Europini Lenacini Rhizophtomini

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of Mexico (1 collection)

• Eocene of Germany (1), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (1)

• Cretaceous of Lebanon (2), Myanmar (7), Spain (1)

Total: 16 collections including 24 occurrences

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