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Family Monotomidae: Atlas of extinct groups of beetles

A.G.Kirejtshuk

 

 

A.G.Kirejtshuk, August 2009.

 

 

The composition subfamilies and genera, including fossils:

 

Subfamily Rhizophaginae Redtenbacher, 1845 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

    Europs Wollaston, 1854 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

    Rhizophagus Herbst, 1793 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

 

Subfamily Monotominae Laporte, 1840 ( Recent)

 

Subfamily Rhizophtominae Kirejtshuk et Azar in Kirejtshuk et al., 2009 (Lower Cretaceous- Recent)

+Rhizophtoma Kirejtshuk et Azar in Kirejtshuk et al. 2009 (Lower Cretaceous)

 

 

 

Literature:

 

(Look also at the page Systematic list of fossil beetles of Scarabaeina (3 part))

 

Пономаренко А.Г., Жерихин В.В. 1980. Надотряд Scarabaeidea. Жесткокрылообразные. (Труды Палеонтологического института АH СССР. 175) Москва, Наука. 75-84.

 

Crowson R.A. 1981. The Biology of the Coleoptera. London-New York-Toronto-Sydney-San Francisco, Academic press. 802 p.

 

Kirejtshuk A.G., Azar D., Tafforeau P., Boistel R., Fernandez V. 2009. New beetles of Polyphaga (Coleptera, Polyphaga) from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber. Denisia, 26 (zugleich Katalogue der oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Neue Serie, 86): 119-130.

 

Ponomarenko A.G. 2002. 2.2.1.3.2 Superorder Scarabaeidea Laicharting, 1781, Order Coleoptera Linne, 1758. The beetles. In: Rasnitsyn, A.P. and Quicke, D.L.J. (eds). 2002. History of insects. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London: 164-180.