(a species of reticulated-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 Distocupes varians)
TMAG collections
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Archostemmata
Superfamily: Cupedoidea
Family: Cupedidae
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 18
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: wood-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic
Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Pitfall trapping — Sticky trapping on Eucalyptus viminalis.
Source ecological literature:
Baker, S.C. (2006b). Ecology and conservation of ground-dwelling beetles in managed wet eucalypt forest: edge and riparian effects. PhD thesis, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.
