Checklist of the Ciidae (Coleoptera) of Louisiana
Matthew
L. Gimmel
Louisiana
State Arthropod Museum
Louisiana
State University
Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, USA 70803
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Last updated: 08 September 2009
5 genera, 19 species (+ 2 genera and 8 species of probable occurrence)
Ceracis monocerus Lawrence, 1967
Distribution: Livingston
Source: Lawrence (1967b: 116)
Ceracis nigropunctatus Lawrence, 1967
Distribution: Iberville
Source: Lawrence (1967b: 118)
Ceracis pullulus (Casey, 1898)
Distribution: Iberville, Livingston, West Feliciana
Source: Lawrence (1967b: 122)
Ceracis punctulatus rubriculus Lawrence, 1967
Distribution: Iberville, Livingston, West Feliciana
Source: Lawrence (1967b: 125)
Ceracis sallei (Mellié, 1848)
Distribution: Iberville, Orleans
Source: Lawrence (1967b: 129)
Ceracis singularis (Dury, 1917)
Distribution: West Feliciana
Source: Lawrence (1967b: 132)
Ceracis thoracicornis (Ziegler, 1845)
Distribution: East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Jefferson, Livingston, Madison, Orleans, Saint Charles, Saint Mary, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, West Feliciana
Source: Lawrence (1967b: 134)
Cis castlei (Dury, 1917)
Distribution: Livingston
Source: Lawrence (1971: 447)
[Cis congestus Casey, 1898]
Distribution: not reported from Louisiana
Source: Lawrence (1971: 522) (records from southeastern Texas and southern Mississippi)
Cis creberrimus Mellié, 1848
Distribution:
Source: Lawrence (1971: 521) (map only)
Cis crinitus Lawrence, 1971
Distribution: Saint Tammany
Source: Lawrence (1971: 455)
Cis fuscipes Mellié, 1848
Distribution:
Source: Lawrence (1967a: 5) (map only)
[Cis krausi Dalla Torre, 1911]
Distribution: not reported from Louisiana
Source: Lawrence (1971: 463) (records from Florida, Georgia, and southeastern Texas)
Cis miles (Casey, 1898)
Distribution:
Source: Lawrence (1971: 467) (state record only)
[Cis quadridentatus (Dury, 1917)]
Distribution: not reported from Louisiana
Source: Lawrence (1971: 469) ("eastern North America from Vermont to Florida and west as far as south-central Texas")
Cis rotundulus Lawrence, 1971
Distribution: Saint Tammany
Source: Lawrence (1971: 472)
Cis subtilis Mellié, 1848
Distribution:
Source: Lawrence (1971: 522) (map only)
Cis tristis Mellié, 1848
Distribution: Orleans
Source: Lawrence (1971: 478)
Cis ursulinus Casey, 1898
Distribution: West Feliciana
Source: Lawrence (1971: 478)
Malacocis brevicollis (Casey, 1898)
Distribution:
Source: Lawrence (1971: 522) (map only)
Octotemnus laevis Casey, 1898
Distribution: Washington
Source: LSAM (det. M. Ferro)
Orthocis longulus Dury, 1917
Distribution: Orleans, Plaquemines
Source: Lawrence (1971: 486)
[Orthocis punctatus (Mellié, 1848)]
Distribution: not reported from Louisiana
Source: Lawrence (1971: 486) ("eastern and midwestern states from New England to Florida and west to Kansas and Texas")
[Orthocis transversatus (Kraus, 1908)]
Distribution: not reported from Louisiana
Source: Lawrence (1971: 488) ("southeastern United States, from southern Virginia to Florida and west to the Gulf Coast of Texas")
[Strigocis opacicollis Dury, 1917]
Distribution: not reported from Louisiana
Source: Lawrence (1971: 521) (records from southern Mississippi, northwestern Arkansas, and northern Mexico)
[Strigocis opalescens (Casey, 1898)]
Distribution: not reported from Louisiana
Source: Lawrence (1971: 491) ("eastern North America, from southern Michigan and New York south and west as far as northeastern Mexico")
[Sulcacis lengi Dury, 1917]
Distribution: not reported from Louisiana
Source: Lawrence (1971: 521) (records from east Texas, northwest Arkansas, and east-central Mississippi)
Lawrence, J.F. 1967a. Biology of the parthenogenetic fungus beetle Cis fuscipes Mellié (Coleoptera: Ciidae). Breviora, 258: 14 pp.
Lawrence, J.F. 1967b. Delimitation of the genus Ceracis (Coleoptera: Ciidae) with a revision of North American species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 136: 91–144.
Lawrence, J.F. 1971. Revision of the North American Ciidae (Coleoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 142: 419–522.