Australymexylon australe (Erichson, 1842) (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 Hylecoetus australis; Lymexylon australe)
TMAG collections
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Lymexyloidea
Family: Lymexylidae
Sumfamily: Melittomminae
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 10
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: xylophage
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic
