Ectosticta cleroides (White, 1855) (a species of longhorn-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 Bethelium blackburni; Bethelium cleroides)

TMAG collections

Typical length (mm): 9
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Ślipiński, A. & Escalona, H. (2016). Australian longhorn beetles (Coleoptea: Cerambycidae), Volume 2: Subfamily Cerambycinae. CSIRO publishing, 640 pp.

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

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Baited trapping (funnel trap) — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Malaise trapping — Pipe trapping — Rearing in insectary from Leptospermum lanigerum — Sticky trapping (substrate not specified).