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Trogoderma varipes Blackburn, 1892 (a species of hide-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 Trogoderma varipes)

TMAG collections

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Bostrichoidea

Family: Dermestidae

Subfamily: Megatominae

Tribe: Megatomini

Morphology

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

Ecology

(ecology not yet documented)

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