Ablabus tuberculatus Carter & Zeck, 1937 (a species of cylindrical bark-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.

TMAG collections

Typical length (mm): 4.5
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Morphology (characterised by L. Forster): — Antennae with two-segmented club — Body black — Elytra each with three tubercules near base and up to three tubercules in three rows on rest of elytra; tubercules bearing cap of yellowish setae — Femora with fringe of white setae — Head with labial palps absent and with frontal ridges raised above antennae; clypeus rounded, with widened sides raised into a lobe in front of eyes and with two nodules at base of lobe — Pronotum with margins explanate, trilobate; anterior lobe (largest) hatchet-shaped, medial widely rounded, posterior (smallest) wide and triangular; fringe of white setae; disc with two undulating, raised ridges which diverge to for — Tarsi red.

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
*Carter, H. & Zeck, E. (1937). A monograph of the Australian Colydiidae. Proc. Lin. Soc. NSW 62(3/4): 181-208. [Page 197].

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

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Vane trapping.