
Nematodes major Bonvouloir, 1872 (a species of false click-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 Nematodes major)
TMAG collections
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Elateroidea
Family: Macraulacinae
Subfamily: Nematodini
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 7
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Ecology
Larval feeding: predator
Association with old trees or dead wood: obligately saproxylic
Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — At light (with use of light-trap) — Sticky trapping on Acacia dealbata — Sticky trapping on Eucalyptus camaldulensis.
