Adelotopus dubius hobartensis Baehr, 1997 (a species of ground-beetle)

Baehr, M. (1997). Revision of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian Region 2. The genera Adclotopus Hope, Cainogenion Notman, Paussotropus Waterhouse, Pseudomorpha Kirby, and Cryptocephalomorpha Ritsema. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). Spixiana Supplement 23: 1-510.

TMAG collections

Typical length (mm): 6
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
*Baehr, M. (1997). Revision of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian Region 2. The genera Adclotopus Hope, Cainogenion Notman, Paussotropus Waterhouse, Pseudomorpha Kirby, and Cryptocephalomorpha Ritsema. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). Spixiana Supplement 23: 1-510.

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

Source ecological literature:
Baker, S.C. (2000). Forest litter beetles and their habitat: a comparison of forest regenerated by wildfire and logging practices. Hons. thesis, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.
Baker, S.C. (2006b). Ecology and conservation of ground-dwelling beetles in managed wet eucalypt forest: edge and riparian effects. PhD thesis, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.
Grove, S. et al. (2009). A long-term experimental study of saproxylic beetle … succession in Tasmanian Eucalyptus … logs… In: Fattorini, S. (Ed.), Insect Ecology and Conservation. Research Signpost, pp. 71-114.
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