Bugguide contributing editor Richard Lareau collected male and female of this species and others in a large, very tough, malodorous, irregular-shaped pollypore fruiting body clinging to a downed swamp tupelo tree in a tupelo and cypress swamp. See images of two of his finds here and here.

Richard sent me some good-sized pieces of this fungus so I could get some live images of its beetle population. My early efforts were very frustrating and I was beginning to think Richard had played an early April Fool's joke on me when suddendly I saw ciid tunnels after one manly rip of the tough fungus, and there in the big plastic bowl over which I was working lay this male of the same apparent species.

Because this may represent an undescribed species I have not held myself to a paltry few images. Further, in view of the limits of my lens system, I have invited Tom Murray to try out his superior equipment on this little guy, so bugguide will be awash in images of this ciid species.

This specimen and any others I might find in Richard's fungus will be sent to Glenda Orledge, a Ciidae expert in England. She is already familiar with bugguide and with Richard's find and quite anxious to examine any specimens (hint, hint, Richard).