Agrypnus pictipennis (Candèze, 1857) (a species of click-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.

TMAG collections

Typical length (mm): 10
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

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

Ecological attributes: — Eucalyptus amygdalina is a host-plant (Bashford, 1990a) — Eucalyptus obliqua is a host-plant (Bashford, 1990a) — Eucalyptus sieberi is a host-plant (Bashford, 1990a) — Eucalyptus viminalis is a host-plant (Bashford, 1990a) — Found in stems of Eucalyptus obliqua, where predatory on larvae of Epithora dorsalis (Bashford, 1994) — Has a one-year life-cycle (Bashford, 1994).

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Hand collection from Eucalyptus globulus — Hand collection from Eucalyptus viminalis — Hand collection from Pinus radiata — Hand collection from under bark (tree species not specified) — Hand collection from under bark of Acacia mollissima — Hand collection from under bark of Eucalyptus globulus — Hand collection from under bark of Eucalyptus pulchella — Hand collection from under bark of Eucalyptus tenuiramis — Hand collection from under bark of Eucalyptus viminalis — Knockdown spraying of bark of Eucalyptus sp. — Not specified — Pitfall trapping — Rearing in insectary (host not documented) — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus dalrypleana — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus delegatensis — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus globulus — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus nitens — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus obliqua — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus viminalis — Rearing in insectary from Nematolepis squamea — Sticky trapping on Eucalyptus camaldulensis — Sticky trapping on Eucalyptus globulus — Vane trapping.

Source ecological literature:
Bashford, R. (1990a). Tasmanian forest insects and their host plants: records from the Tasmanian Forestry Commission insect collection. Hobart: Tas. Forestry Commission, 32 pages.
Bashford, R. (1994). Life history and mortality of the longicorn Epithora dorsalis MacLeay (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Tasmania. Aust. Entom. 21 (4): 125-136.
Grove, S.J. & Yaxley, B. (2005). Wildlife habitat strips and native forest ground-active beetle assemblages in plantation nodes in northeast Tasmania. Aust. J. Entom. 44 (4): 331-343.