Amblytelus curtus (Fabricius, 1801) (a species of ground-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): 12
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Baehr, M. (2004). The Amblytelini. Taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Psydrinae). Coleoptera 8: 1-286.
*Fabricius, J.C. (1801). Systema Eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. 2. Bibl. Acad. Nov., Kill., 610 pages.
Sloane, T.G. (1920). The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proc. Linn. Soc. NSW 45: 113-178

Assumed larval feeding: predator
Association with dead wood or old trees: at least facultatively saproxylic

Ecological attributes: — Dry sclerophyll forest can be suitable habitat (Michaels, 1999b).

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Baited trapping (funnel trap) — Knockdown spraying of bark of Eucalyptus obliqua — Knockdown spraying of bark of Eucalyptus sp. — Malaise trapping — Pitfall trapping — Sticky trapping (substrate not specified) — Sticky trapping on Eucalyptus ovata — Vane trapping.

Source ecological literature:
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.
Michaels, K.F. (1999b). Carabid … communities in Tasmania: classification for nature conservation. In: Ponder, W. & Lunney, D. (Ed.), The Other 99%: …. Roy. Zool. Soc. NSW, pp. 374-379.