Adelium similatum Germar, 1848 (a species of darkling-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. (as Adelium obesum)

TMAG collections

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea

Family: Tenebrionidae

Subfamily: Lagriinae

Tribe: Adeliini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 9
Flightedness: functionally flightless

Ecology

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