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Myrabolia australis Tomaszewska & Slipinski, 2008 (a species of myraboliid beetle)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence

Tomaszewska, K.W. & Ślipiński, A. (2008). Review of the genus Myrabolia Reitter (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Myraboliidae). Austral Entomology 47 (1): 32-50.

Atlas of Living Australia record(s)

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Cucujoidea

Family: Myraboliidae

Morphology

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

Source literature on taxonomy or morphology (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
*Tomaszewska, K.W. & Ślipiński, A. (2008). Review of the genus Myrabolia Reitter (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Myraboliidae). Austral Entomology 47 (1): 32-50.

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: detritivore
Association with dead wood or old trees: at least facultatively saproxylic

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