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Cryphalus pilosellus Erichson, 1842 (a species of bark-beetle)

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 Cryphalus pilosellus)

TMAG collecctions

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Curculionoidea

Family: Curculionidae

Subfamily: Scolytinae

Tribe: Cryphalini

Morphology

Typical length (mm):  2.3
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: wood-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic

 

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Pipe trapping — Vane trapping.

Cryphalus pilosellus
Cryphalus pilosellus
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