Genus Cis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Minute Tree-fungus Beetle - Cis submicans

Cis creberrimus Mellié - Cis creberrimus

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 Cis

Explanation of Names

Cis Latreille 1796

Numbers

43 spp. in our area, ~350 described spp. worldwide(1)

Identification

key to spp. in(2)

Range

worldwide (except Africa), incl. most of NA(1)

Food

Polypore fungi(1)

Remarks

some spp. infest commercial dried mushrooms & polypores(1)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	Revision of the North American Ciidae (Coleoptera) Lawrence J.F. 1971. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 142: 419‒522.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 6 April, 2007 - 1:14am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 26 January, 2013 - 6:12pm

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