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Leptonetron victoriense (Blackburn, 1891) (a species of ship-timber 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 Atractocerus victoriensis, Atractocerus tasmaniensis)

TMAG collections

Lawrence, J.F. (2020). The Australian Lymexylidae (Coleoptera: Tenerionoidea) with one new genus and two genera new to Australia. Zootaxa 4895 (2): 211-238.

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Lymexyloidea

Family: Lymexylidae

Sumfamily: Lymexylinae

Morphology

Typical length (mm):  (not yet documented)
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Source publications on morphology and taxonomy:
Lawrence, J.F. (2020). The Australian Lymexylidae (Coleoptera: Tenerionoidea) with one new genus and two genera new to Australia. Zootaxa 4895 (2): 211-238.

Ecology

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

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