Cis okennoni Lopes-Andrade and Ferro, new species (Coleoptera: Ciidae), is described from specimens found in Texas (type locality Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, Tarrant Co.), Alabama, Mississippi, and Oklahoma, USA. The new species is included in the cayensis species-group, and it is unique within this group in possessing single elytral punctation, an acute outer apical angle of the protibia, and males with the anterior edge of the pronotum projected into two conspicuous horns. The only known breeding record for C. okennoni is in basidiomes of Xylobolus frustulatus (Pers.) Boidin (Russulales: Stereaceae), from which the holotype and most of the type series were collected.
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25 March 2020
A New Species of Cis Latreille (Coleoptera: Ciidae) from the USA, with Comments on the Use by Ciidae of Stereaceae Fungi (Basidiomycota: Agaricomycetes: Russulales) As Hosts
Cristiano Lopes-Andrade,
Michael L. Ferro,
Harold W. Keller
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The Coleopterists Bulletin
Vol. 74 • No. 1
March 2020
Vol. 74 • No. 1
March 2020
cayensis species-group
ceramic or parchment fungus
minute tree-fungus beetle
taxonomy
Xylobolus frustulatus