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Daulis cimicoides Erichson, 1842 (a species of handsome 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 Daulis cimicoides)

TMAG collections

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Coccinelloidea

Family: Endomychidae

Subfamily: Lycoperdinae

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 2.5
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: fungus-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: at least facultatively saproxylic

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