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Ciidae

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Description

The minute tree-fungus beetles, family Ciidae, are a sizeable group of beetles which inhabit Polyporales bracket fungi or coarse woody debris. Most numerous in warmer regions, they are nonetheless widespread and a considerable number of species occur as far polewards as Scandinavia for example.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3794	https://www.gbif.org/species/3794
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	70548	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=70548

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Ciidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Coleopterida	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
order	Coleoptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
superfamily	Tenebrionoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Ciidae	Leach 1819

Common Name

minute tree-fungus beetle

Scientific Name

Ciidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ciidae	family	belongs to Tenebrionoidea	stated without evidence	Lawrence and Newton, 1995
Ciidae	family	belongs to Tenebrionoidea	stated with evidence	Bouchard et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (83%)

First Recorded Appearance

28.4 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. F. Lawrence and A. F. Newton, Jr. 1995. Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera. Biology, Phylogeny and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A Crowson

Common Name(s)

Trädsvampborrare, Minute Tree-fungus Beetle, Minute Tree-fungus Beetles

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ciinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		2	28.4 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Sphindociinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Acanthocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Apterocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Atlantocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ceracis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	28.4 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Cisarthron genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cisdygma genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dolichocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ennearthron genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euxestocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Falcocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Falsocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Grossicis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hadraule genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lipopterocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Malacocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neoapterocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neoennearthron genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nipponapterocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nipponocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Notapterocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Octotemnus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Odontocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Paratrichapus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Paraxestocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phellinocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plesiocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Polynesicis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Porculus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rhopalodontus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Scolytocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sphindocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Strigocis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sulcacis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Syncosmetus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tropicis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Wagaicis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xylographella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xylographus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Cisidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Cisidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1819	Ciidae Leach
1995	Ciidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr. p. 786
2011	Ciidae Bouchard et al.

References

Lawrence J. F., Newton, Jr. A. F. (1995) Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera, Biology, Phylogeny and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A Crowson, 779-1006

Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., et al (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, 1-972

Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Lawrence JF (1971) Revision of the North American Ciidae (Coleoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 142: 419-522. - via Checklist of Beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second Edition.

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bouchard, P.; Bousquet, Y.; Davies, A.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M.; Lawrence, J.; Lyal, C.; Newton, A.; Reid, C.; Schmitt, M.; Slipinski, A.; Smith, A. (2011). Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys. 88: 1-972. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker 82, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds., 1995: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2. 779-1006. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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