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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 » Orthocis » Orthocis transversatus

Species Orthocis transversatus

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Orthocis transversatus (Kraus) - Orthocis transversatus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Ciidae (Minute Tree-fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Ciinae
Tribe Ciini
Genus Orthocis
Species transversatus (Orthocis transversatus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Orthocis transversatus (Kraus)
Orig. Comb: Ennearthron transversatum Kraus, 1908
=pallidus Kraus
Numbers
5 spp. n. of Mex. (1)
Identification
may be distinguished from other North American Orthocis by the 9-segmented antennae, small size, coarse and dense pronotal punctation, and bicolored elytra. (1)
Range
TX-FL-VA - Map (1)(2)
Life Cycle
Host fungi. Unknown. Bred from decaying rattan vines in Virginia. Collected by beating dead branches of Quercus and from a dead limb of "red-bay" in Florida. (1)
See Also
resembles certain small, bicolored Cis, such as C. krausi, C. superhus Kraus, and C. atromaculatus Pic, but in all of these the vestiture consists of stouter bristles rather than fine hairs, the antennae are 10-segmented, and the protibial apices are angulate or dentate. (1)
Print References
Kraus E.J. (1908) New bicolored Ciidae (Coleoptera). Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 10: 74-81.
Works Cited
1.Revision of the North American Ciidae (Coleoptera)
Lawrence J.F. 1971. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 142: 419-522.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 24 March, 2012 - 11:27am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 22 January, 2020 - 11:00pm

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