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Demetrida brachinodera (Chaudoir, 1852) (a species of ground-beetle)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence
Sloane, T.G. (1920). The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proc. Linn. Soc. NSW 45: 113-178.

TMAG collections

Classification
Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Adephaga

Superfamily: Caraboidea

Family: Carabidae

Subfamily: Harpalinae

Tribe: Lebiini

Morphology
Typical length 14
Flightedness: (not yet documented)

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Sloane, T.G. (1920). The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proc. Linn. Soc. NSW 45: 113-178.

Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: predator
Association with dead wood or old trees: at least facultatively saproxylic

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Knockdown fogging of canopy of Eucalyptus obliqua — Pipe trapping — Sticky trapping on Eucalyptus camaldulensis — Sticky trapping on Eucalyptus viminalis.

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