Cissites

Cissites is a genus of blister beetles in the family Meloidae. There are at least four described species in Cissites.[1][2][3]

Cissites
Cissites maculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Meloidae
Subfamily: Nemognathinae
Genus: Cissites
Latreille, 1804

Species

These four species belong to the genus Cissites:

  • Cissites auriculata (Champion, 1892) (big-eared blister beetle)
  • Cissites cephalotes (Olivier, 1795)
  • Cissites maculata (Swederus, 1787)
  • Cissites sasakii Kono, 1936
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References
  1. "Cissites Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Cissites". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading
  • Lewis, Arthur E. (2005). "A United States Record for the Genus Cissites Latreille (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Zonitini)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 58 (4): 635–636. doi:10.1649/738. JSTOR 4009849.
  • Pinto, J. D.; Bologna, M. A. (1999). "The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis". Journal of Natural History. 33 (4): 569–620. doi:10.1080/002229399300254.
  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.
  • Media related to Cissites at Wikimedia Commons


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