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Genus Ceracis

ciid - Ceracis californicus Ceracis nigropunctatus Lawrence - Ceracis nigropunctatus Ceracis californicus female, dorsal - Ceracis californicus - female Beetle - Ceracis Ciidae - Ceracis pecki Ceracis thoracicornis - male LBB 6 - Ceracis pecki Ciidae? - Ceracis pecki
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 Ceracis
Explanation of Names
Ceracis Mellié 1849
Numbers
19 spp. in our area(1), >40 total
Identification
key to spp. in (2)
Range
mostly New World (several spp. in S.Africa, Japan, and the Indo-Pacific); in our area, widespread(1)
Food
On polypores of all host preference groups (most spp. with limited host ranges) and occasionally a few other fungi(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. MCZ 142: 419‒522.