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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.

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