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Bucolellus minutus (Blackburn, 1892) (a species of ladybird)

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 Cycloscymnus minutus)

TMAG collections 

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Coccinelloidea

Family: Coccinellidae

Subfamily: Coccinellinae

Tribe: Scymnillini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 1.5
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: predator

Association with dead wood or old trees: not saproxylic 

Bucolellus minutus
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