Monommatini is a tribe of beetles known as monommatid beetles.
[ They are in the ironclad beetle family, ]Zopheridae
Zopheridae is a family of beetles belonging to Tenebrionoidea. It has grown considerably in recent years as the members of two other families are now included (Monommatidae and Colydiidae), as subfamilies or (in the former case) even as tribe ( ...
. There are about 15 genera and 300 described species in Monommatini. They are found worldwide, with the greatest diversity in Madagascar.[ They are commonly associated with rotting plant matter such as the ]dry rot
Dry rot is wood decay caused by one of several species of fungi that digest parts of wood which give it strength and stiffness. It was previously used to describe any decay of cured wood in ships and buildings by a fungus which resulted in a ...
ting cambium
A cambium (: cambiums or cambia), in plants, is a tissue layer that provides partially undifferentiated cells for plant growth. It is found in the area between xylem and phloem. A cambium can also be defined as a cellular plant tissue from whic ...
of trees.[
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Taxonomy
Monommatini has been considered a family (Monommatidae)[ and subfamily (Monommatinae) in the past, but is now treated as a tribe in the subfamily Zopherinae.][
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References
Zopheridae
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