Minute Tree-fungus Beetles (Ciidae) - 47 Species, Identification & Facts

Ceracis pecki

Identification: Holotype: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Ent:31695

Cis bilamellatus

This small brown beetle rarely exceeds 2 mm in length. Males may be identified by the broad erect plates on the clypeus and anterior margin of the pronotum, these vary greatly in size and this is not proportional to the size of the specimen, sometime

Cis boleti

A small (3 or 4 mm) uniformly brown beetle. Around tree stumps or dead wood with an amount of fungus growth. Widespread and fairly frequent in the southern half of Britain. No additional images available for this species.

Cis ephippiatus

Identification: Elytra with dual puncturation, short and decumbent setae, usually lighter basally and to tip; pronotum not very densely punctured; male sexual features rather weak.

Cis okennoni

Type Locality: Texas: Tarrant Co. Fort Worth Nature Center N 32.8285, W –97.4629 21 December 2016 ex Xylobolus frustulatus on post oak log. col. B. O'Kennon

Cis striatulus

Identification: pronotal front angles not produced, side margin narrow; elytral punctation dual, larger punctures in irregular rows; elytral vestiture short and indistinctly dual, longer hairs seriate

Orthocis transversatus

Identification: elytra with irregular transverse band not attaining the margin. may be distinguished from other North American Orthocis by the 9-segmented antennae, small size, coarse and dense pronotal punctation, and bicolored elytra. Det. E. G. Ri