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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles (Tenebrionoidea) » Minute Tree-fungus Beetles (Ciidae) » Ciinae » Ciini » Ceracis

Genus Ceracis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Old shelf fungus ciids - Ceracis - male - female beetle - Ceracis the herd from the green (fungus) pastures - Ceracis thoracicornis - male Ceracis nigropunctatus Lawrence - Ceracis nigropunctatus Ceracis thoracicornis (Ziegler) - Ceracis thoracicornis - male Ceracis thoracicornis (Ziegler) - Ceracis thoracicornis - male Ceracis californicus female, ventral - Ceracis californicus - female Another LRB.. - Ceracis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea (Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles)
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, widewspread(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. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 142: 419-522.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 8 March, 2007 - 4:21pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 27 September, 2017 - 3:53pm

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