Acanthoscelides obtectus (a species of bean-beetle)
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.
Introduced (now cosmopolitan).
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Chrysomeloidea
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Bruchinae
Tribe: Bruchini
Morphology
Typical length (mm): (not yet documented)
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: seed-feeder (larvae live within beans or peas)
Association with dead wood or old trees: not saproxylic
