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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Minute Tree-fungus Beetles (Ciidae) » Ciinae » Ciini » Ceracis » Ceracis thoracicornis
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Minute Tree-fungus Beetle - Ceracis thoracicornis - male
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Luk

Minute Tree-fungus Beetle - Ceracis thoracicornis - Male
Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada
March 10, 2007
Size: ~ 1 mm
I found several adults of this Ciid in shelf fungus collected in a woodlot.

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Minute Tree-fungus Beetle - Ceracis thoracicornis - male Minute Tree-fungus Beetle Pupa - Ceracis thoracicornis - male Minute Tree-fungus Beetle Pupa - Ceracis thoracicornis - male Minute Tree-fungus Beetle Larvae - Ceracis thoracicornis
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Contributed by Stephen Luk on 10 March, 2007 - 7:25pm
Last updated 3 June, 2011 - 5:03pm

Moved
Moved from Minute Tree-fungus Beetles.
… Stephen Luk, 22 May, 2007 - 3:52pm login or register to post comments

Identification
Ceracis thoracicornis (Ziegler)
… Cristiano Lopes-Andrade, 21 May, 2007 - 3:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks a lot, Cristiano!
Glad we can put a name to this Ciid! I've had many of them emerging from the polypore fungus.
… Stephen Luk, 21 May, 2007 - 3:47pm login or register to post comments

 
You're welcome
In case you have some available specimens (also of other ciids) and want to send as a gift to me, I'll become very glad :)

I have few of this species here in the collection...
… Cristiano Lopes-Andrade, 21 May, 2007 - 4:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Probably have some left
I still have old fungi in the rearing containers, likely thriving with C. thoracicornis and maybe some Octote*mnus laev*is (asterisks keep the names from coming up in site searches) and Cis sp. ... possibly some others which I've overlooked. I've posted numerous unidentified Ciids on the Ciid pages, so if you recognize or want any of them, I may be able to search the fungi and get some for you.
… Stephen Luk, 22 May, 2007 - 11:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Stephen!
Any ciid would be useful for me! I told Jim and others here that, instead of throwing away the ciids, to keep some and send me (if and when possible). Some species cannot be identified from photos, but I'm taking a look in all the ciids of Bugguide when I have spare time and trying to contribute. After I see your ciid photos, I'll tell you the species that are most important for me. Thanks in advance!
… Cristiano Lopes-Andrade, 23 May, 2007 - 9:07am login or register to post comments

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