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Gerynassa picticornis Blackburn, 1893 (a species of weevil)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence

Semmens, T.D., McQuillan, P.B. & Hayhurst, G. (1992). Catalogue of the Insects of Tasmania. Government of Tasmania: Department of Primary Industry, 104 pp. (as Cydmaea picticornis) 

TMAG collections

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Curculionoidea

Family: Curculionidae

Subfamily: Hyperinae

Tribe: Hyperini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 2.5
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: (not yet documented)
Association with dead wood or old trees: (not yet documented)

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Hand collection from Eucalyptus amygdalina — Knockdown spraying of bark of Eucalyptus sp. — Rearing in insectary (host not documented).

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.

Gerynassa picticornis
Gerynassa picticornis
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