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Garicaphila pilosa (Deane, 1930) (a species of feather-winged 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 Philagarcia pilosa)

TMAG collections

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Staphylinoidea

Family: Ptiliidae

Subfamily: Ptiliinae

Tribe: Nanosellini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 0.7
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

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

Garicaphila pilosa
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