Pictacara tasmanica (Blackburn, 1892) (a species of marsh-beetle)

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 Macrohelodes crassus; Macrohelodes

Watts, C.H.S, Bradford, T.M., Cooper, S.J.B & Libonatti, T.M. (2020). New genera, species and combinations in the Pseudomicrocara Armstrong group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) based on morphology supported by mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequence data. Zootaxa 4831: 1 -66.tasmanicus)

TMAG collections

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Watts, C.H.S. (2010). Revision of the genus Macrohelodes (Scirtidae: Coleoptera: Insecta). Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. 134 (1): 19-52.
Watts, C.H.S, Bradford, T.M., Cooper, S.J.B & Libonatti, T.M. (2020). New genera, species and combinations in the Pseudomicrocara Armstrong group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) based on morphology supported by mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequence data. Zootaxa 4831: 1 -66.

Assumed larval feeding: detritivore
Association with dead wood or old trees: not saproxylic

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Baited trapping (funnel trap) — Hand collection from flowers of Eucryphia lucida (Ettershanks & Ettershanks, 1993) — Knockdown fogging of canopy of Athrotaxis selaginoides/Nothofagus cunninghamii — Knockdown fogging of canopy of Nothofagus cunninghamii — Pitfall trapping.