Adelium licinoides​  (a species of darkling-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 Adelium licinoides)
TMAG collections
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea
Family: Tenebrionidae
Subfamily: Lagriinae
Tribe: Adeliini
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 14 mm
Flightedness: functionally flightless
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: wood-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic
