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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Meloidae
Subfamilia: Nemognathinae
Tribus: Horiini
Genus: Cissites
Species: Cissites africana Cissites apicalis Cissites auriculata Cissites cephalotes Cissites championi Cissites debeyi Cissites intermedia C. maculata – Cissites maxillosa Cissites sasakii Cissites testacea
Name

Cissites Latreille, 1804

Primary references

Latreille [1804]: Hist. Crust. Ins., 10, 364; 1804, N. Dict. Hist. nat., 24, 154.

References

Cros, A. 1928: Révision des genres Horia Fabr. et Cissites Latr. (note rectificative et complementaire). Bulletin de la Société Royale Entomologique d'Égypte, 1927: 103–115. [not seen]
Gahan, C.J. 1908: Notes on the coleopterous genera Horia, Fab., and Cissites, Latr., and a list of the described species. Annals and magazine of natural history (8), 2(8): 199–204. DOI: 10.1080/00222930808692469 BHL

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

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

References

"Cissites Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
"Cissites". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

"Cissites genus Information". BugGuide.net. 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.

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