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Tribolium confusum Jacquelin du Val & Fairmaire, 1862 (confused flour-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.

Not native; probably of European origin.

Classification
Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea

Family: Tenebrionidae

Subfamily: Tenebrioninae

Tribe: Triboliini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 4
Flightedness: (not yet documented)

Ecology
(ecology not yet documented)
Tribolium confusum
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