Pictacara montana ( (a species of marsh-beetle)
Basis for Tasmanian occurrence
TMAG collections
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Scirtoidea
Family: Scirtidae
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 5.5
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
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.
Ecology
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.
