Association of Ceracis cornifer (Mellié) (Coleoptera: Ciidae) with the bracket fungus Pycnoporus sanguineus (Basidiomycetes: Polyporaceae)

Abstract

Associação de Ceracis cornifer (Mellié) (Coleoptera: Ciidae) com o Fungo Pycnoporus sanguineus (Basidiomycetes: Polyporaceae) RESUMO-Duas novas coletas de Ceracis cornifer (Mellié) na Região Sudeste do Brasil são relatadas, descrevendo a associação dessa espécie com o fungo orelha-de-pau Pycnoporus sanguineus. A associação de outras espécies do grupo Ceracis furcifer Mellié com esse fungo é discutida. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Ciinae, micetobionte, basidiocarpo ABSTRACT-Two new records of Ceracis cornifer (Mellié) in the Southeast Region of Brazil are presented here, describing the association of this species with the bracket fungus Pycnoporus sanguineus. The association of other species of the Ceracis furcifer Mellié group with this fungus is discussed.

Ceracis zarathustrai sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Ciidae) from the Atlantic Forest biome

“…host fungi. However, species of the C. furcifer group are most frequently found in basidiomes of Pycnoporus sanguineus (L.) Murrill, 1904(LAWRENCE 1973, GUMIER-COSTA et al 2003, GRAF-PETERS et al 2011), a very common fungi occurring in open areas of tropical Brazil, seldom observed inside forests (C. Lopes-Andrade, pers. obs.).…”

Systematics of the Ceracis furcifer Species-Group (Coleoptera: Ciidae): The Specialized Consumers of the Blood-Red Bracket Fungus Pycnoporus sanguineus

“…Original descriptions of species of the furcifer group provide scant occurrence data, that are sometimes inaccurate and there are few subsequent works citing information on these species. Mellié [ 1 ] cited the type-locality of C. cornifer solely as “Brésil” (=Brazil) and there are only a few other published records of the species from southeastern Brazil [ 9 ]. Ceracis simplicicornis was described from Buenos Aires (Argentina) and recorded from São Francisco de Paula (RS-Brazil) [ 10 ].…”

“…Here, the southern tip of Florida will be treated as part of the Neotropical region, and the surrounding areas as transitions to the Nearctic region. Therefore, all members of the furcifer group are essentially Neotropical [ 3 , 9 , 10 ], with a few records from the Nearctic region [ 3 ], and its species have allopatric distributions based on previously known material [ 3 ].…”

First Record of the Genus Cis Latreille (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Ciidae) from Korea, with Six Unrecorded Species with Host Fungi

“…These members are considered mycetobiont because they depend upon the basidiocarps for food and breeding throughout their life span (Scheerpeltz and Höfler, 1948;Gumier-Costa et al, 2003;Jung, 2010). For example, Cis boleti preferentially colonizes in the fruiting bodies of fungi from the genus Trametes that are known as important wood decomposers.…”