Cis blackburni Lawrence & Paviour-Smith, 2016 (a species of minute tree-fungus-beetle)

Lawrence, J.F. (2016). The Australian Ciidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea): A Preliminary Revision. Zootaxa 4198 (1): 1-208.

TMAG collections

Typical length (mm): 1.8
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
*Lawrence, J.F. (2016). The Australian Ciidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea): A Preliminary Revision. Zootaxa 4198 (1): 1-208.

Assumed larval feeding: fungus-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Knockdown spraying of bark of Eucalyptus sp. — Sticky trapping on Eucalyptus obliqua.

Source ecological literature:
Grove, S.J. & Yaxley, B. (2005). Wildlife habitat strips and native forest ground-active beetle assemblages in plantation nodes in northeast Tasmania. Aust. J. Entom. 44 (4): 331-343.
Harrison, K.S. (2007). Saproxylic beetles associated with habitat features in Eucalyptus obliqua trees in the southern forests of Tasmania. PhD thesis, Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.