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Elythomerus elongatulus​ Waterhouse, 1874 (a species of variegated mud-loving beetle)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence

Atlas of Living Australia record(s)

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Byrrhoidea

Family: Heteroceridae

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 3
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: predator
Association with dead wood or old trees: not saproxylic

Ecological attributes: aquatic, on mud at the fringes of waterbodies

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