Orthocis Casey, 1898

Traylor, Clayton R., Ulyshen, Michael D., Cornish, J. Winston, Tigreros, Gabriel & McHugh, Joseph V., 2025, Progress toward a list of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) in the southeastern USA, ZooKeys 1232, pp. 1-95 : 1-95

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1232.143989
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15027404
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scientific name	Orthocis Casey, 1898
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Genus Orthocis Casey, 1898 View in CoL

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: a single individual from one site. Caught in flight trap from 21 April – 6 May 2020. Includes one morphospecies that was not determined to species-level.

Saproxylic habits.

Larvae and adults live and feed on wood-decomposing, bracket fungi ( Thayer and Lawrence 2002); Orthocis have a narrow range of related fungal hosts and fall within the Auricularia Bull. ( Auriculariaceae ) ciid host-group ( Lawrence 1973; Orledge and Reynolds 2005).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Ciidae

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