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Heteronyx cervina (Boisduval, 1835) (a species of scarab-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 Heteronyx cervinus)

TMAG collections

Classification
Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea

Family: Scarabaeidae

Subfamily: Melolonthinae

Tribe: Heteronycini

Morphology
Typical length (mm): 7
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Ecology
(ecology not yet documented)
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