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Kaveinga frontalis (Grouvelle, 1903) (a species of wrinkled bark-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.

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Adephaga

Superfamily: Caraboidea

Family: Carabidae

Subfamily: Rhysodinae

Morphology

Typical length (mm): (not yet documented)
Flightedness: (not yet documented)

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Bell, R.T. & Bell, J.R. (1991). The Rhysodini of Australia (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae or Rhysodidae). Ann. Carnegie Mus. 60: 179-210.

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: slime-mould-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Hand collection from within log

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