
(a species of silken fungus-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 Anchicera lewisi)
TMAG collections
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Cucujoidea
Family: Cryptophagidae
Subfamily: Atomariinae
Tribe: Atomariini
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 1.7
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: fungus-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: at least facultatively saproxylic
Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Emergence trapping from cut billets of Eucalyptus obliqua (Harrison, 2007).
Source ecological literature:
Harrison, K.S. (2007). Saproxylic beetles associated with habitat features in Eucalyptus obliqua trees in the southern forests of Tasmania. PhD thesis, Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.
