(a species of variegated mud-loving 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 Heterocerus sp. A)
TMAG collections
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
