A Survey of Ciidae (Coleoptera, Tenebrionoidea) of the Hyrcanian Forest (Iran) with New Faunistic Records

Ciidae are a small family of mycetophagus beetles with only nine species so far recorded in Iran. The occurrence of four of them has now been confirmed. During the 2014-2017 survey in the Hyrcanian Forest, North Iran, 12 species belonging to 6 genera have been recorded for the first time in Iran. As a result of this study, the number of species known from Iran has increases to 21.