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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Minute Tree-fungus Beetles (Ciidae) » Ciinae » Ciini » Sulcacis » Sulcacis curtulus
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Sulacis curtulus? - Sulcacis curtulus - male
Copyright © 2011 Kojun Kanda

Sulacis curtulus? - Sulcacis curtulus - Male
along Big Basin Highway, Santa Cruz County, California, USA
May 26, 2008
Size: 1.6mm
Found this ciid a while back. Keyed to Sulacis, but I don't have any comparative material.
-outer apical angle of protibia with spines
-prosternum on different plane than intercoxal process
-pronotum of male simple, vestiture of short stout bristles
-pronotum more elongate of male simple

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Sulacis curtulus? - Sulcacis curtulus - male Sulacis? - Sulcacis curtulus - male
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Contributed by Kojun Kanda on 21 April, 2011 - 6:45pm
Last updated 21 April, 2011 - 8:40pm

awesome -- thanks for the nice addition, guys!
Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 21 April, 2011 - 8:33pm login or register to post comments

Id confirmed
You're right. That's Sulcacis curtulus (Casey)
… Cristiano Lopes-Andrade, 21 April, 2011 - 7:23pm login or register to post comments

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