Pelecotominae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Ripiphoridae
Subfamilia: Pelecotominae
Genera (15): Allocinops – Clinopalpus – Clinops – Elytroxystrotus – Euctenia – Geoscopus – Micropelecotoides – Pelecotoma – Rhipistena – Sharpides – Spinotoma – Trigonodera – Zapotecotoma – ?Dunbrodianus – ?Madrasiindus – ?Setosicornia
Name

Pelecotominae Seidlitz

Synonyms

Micholaeminae

References

Batelka, J. 2009: Clinopalpus hanae, a new genus and species of ripiphorid beetle from Malaysia (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae: Pelecotominae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 49: 239–245. Abstract
Engel, M.S., Falin, Z.H. & Batelka, J. 2019. A new genus of Pelecotominae from Mexico, with notes on the genera Clinops and Scotoscopus and the description of new species (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae). Zookeys, 857: 59–84. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.857.34938 Reference page.
Švácha, P. 1994: Bionomics, behaviour and immature stages of Pelecotoma fennica (Paykull) (Coleoptera: Rhipiphoridae). Journal of natural history, 28: 585–618. DOI: 10.1080/00222939400770271
Hsiao Y., Huang, C.-L. 2018: Spinotoma ruicheni: A new Late Cretaceous genus and species of wedge-shaped beetle from Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae, Pelecotominae). Cretaceous Research, 82: 29-35. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.10.022