Diemenoma tasmanica (Champion, 1894)(a species of darkling-beetle)

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 Licinoma tasmanica)

TMAG collections

Typical length (mm): 8
Flightedness: functionally flightless

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

Ecological attributes: — Found under large logs (Grove et al., 2006).

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Emergence trapping from cut billets of Eucalyptus obliqua (Harrison, 2007) — Emergence trapping from cut trunk of Dicksonia antarctica (Jones, 2007) — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Hand collection from under log of Eucalyptus sp. — Pitfall trapping — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus obliqua.

Source ecological literature:
Grove, S.J. et al. (2006). What lives under large logs in Tasmanian eucalypt forest? Tas. Nat. 128: 86-93.
Harrison, K.S. (2007). Saproxylic beetles associated with habitat features in Eucalyptus obliqua trees in the southern forests of Tasmania. PhD thesis, Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.