Nothochaetes fasciculatus
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 Pedilophorus fasciculatus)
TMAG collections
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Byrrhoidea
Family: Byrrhidae
Subfamily: Byrrhinae
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 3
Flightedness: functionally flightless
Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A. Jäger, O. & Pütz, A. (2013). The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745:301-29.
*Lea, A.M. (1920). Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part XVI. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 45: 375-403.
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: moss-feeder
