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Corticaria japonica Reitter, 1877 (a species of minute brown scavenger-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 Corticaria japonica)

TMAG collections

Introduced (from Japan)

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Coccinelloidea

Family: Latridiidae

Subfamily: Corticariinae

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 1.5
Flightedness: (not yet documented)

Ecology

(ecology not yet documented)

Corticaria japonica
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