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

Genus Orthocis

Beetle - Orthocis punctatus Orthocis transversatus (Kraus) - Orthocis transversatus tiny beetle - Orthocis punctatus Ciid - Orthocis punctatus small beetle - Orthocis punctatus Ciid - Orthocis punctatus unknown beetle - Orthocis punctatus unknown beetle - Orthocis punctatus
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 Orthocis
Explanation of Names
Orthocis Casey 1898
Numbers
5 spp. in our area, ~70 spp. worldwide(1)
Identification
key to spp. in(1)
Range
worldwide and across NA; in our area, more diverse in se. US(1)
Works Cited
1.Revision of the North American Ciidae (Coleoptera)
Lawrence J.F. 1971. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 142: 419-522.