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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Cis
Genus
Cis
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
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1
)
Identification
key to spp. in
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2
)
Range
worldwide (except Africa), incl. most of NA
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1
)
Food
Polypore fungi
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1
)
Remarks
some spp. infest commercial dried mushrooms & polypores
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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. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 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