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Bitoma serricollis Pascoe, 1860 (a species of cylindrical bark-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 Bitoma serricollis)

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea

Family: Zopheridae

Subfamily: Colydiinae

Tribe: Colydiini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): (not yet documented)
Flightedness: (not yet documented)

Ecology

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

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