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Cnemoplites australis (Erichson, 1842) (a species of longhorn-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 Cnemoplites australis)

TMAG collections

Classification
Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Chrysomeloidea

Family: Cerambycidae

Subfamily: Prioninae

Tribe: Macrotomini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 40
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Ślipiński, A. & Escalona, H. (2013). Australian longhorn beetles (Coleoptea: Cerambycidae), Volume 1: Introduction and Subfamily Lamiinae. CSIRO publishing, 504 pp.

Ecology

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

Paroplites australis
Paroplites australis
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Paroplites australis