Cis submicans Abeille de Perrin, 1874

Drogvalenko, Alexander N. & Ghahari, Hassan, 2021, An annotated checklist of Ciidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) of Iran, Zootaxa 4981 (2), pp. 317-330 : 322-323

14- Cis submicans Abeille de Perrin, 1874

Distribution in Iran: Golestan, Mazandaran ( Amini et al. 2020), Guilan ( Amini et al. 2020; Samin et al. 2018b as Cis villosulus (Marsham, 1802) - misidentification), Northern Iran ( Lopes-Andrade et al. 2016).

New material examined: Mazandaran province, near Behshahr, in bracket fungus, 2 ex, without data on collecting date, R. Rezaei leg.

General distribution: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Belarus, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia (Central, North and South European Territory, Far East), Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America.

Habitat: In Europe, this species develops in soft basidiomas of tinder fungi from deciduous trees, mainly of the genus Trametes ( T. versicolor , T. pubescens , T. ochracea , T. gibbosa etc.), as well as Lenzites betulinus and Cerrena unicolor .

Comments: Reared from fungi on Fagus orientalis (Fagaceae) and Populus sp. (Salicaceae) ( Amini et al. 2020).