Cryptolestes diemenensis (Blackburn, 1903) (a species of lined flat-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.(as Cryptolestes diemenensis)

TMAG collections

Typical length (mm): 3.2
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Morphology (characterised by L. Forster): — Antennae of male ‘remarkable’, bearing large, curved basal segment; those of female with first antennal segment as long as following three — Pronotum with only one well-defined stria along each strongly rounded margin; front angles not distinct when viewed from above.

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Lea, A.M. (1904). Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera, Part VII. Proc. Lin. Soc. NSW 29: 60-107. [Page 87].

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

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Emergence trapping from cut billets of Eucalyptus obliqua (Harrison, 2007) — Sticky trapping on Eucalyptus obliqua.

Source ecological literature:
Harrison, K.S. (2007). Saproxylic beetles associated with habitat features in Eucalyptus obliqua trees in the southern forests of Tasmania. PhD thesis, Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.