Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Subfamily Ciinae

ciid - Cis Cis? - Cis - male ciid - Cis Ciid - Octotemnus Cis sp. 2 - Cis - female Coleoptera - Cis hirsutus ciid - Cis vitulus horned FL ciid - Ceracis
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
Numbers
includes all the ciid genera but one, arranged in 3 tribes(1) [of which 2 represented in our area](2)
Works Cited
1.Lopes-Andrade C. (2011) Ciidae Leach 1819. In: The Tree of Life Web Project
2.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.