Mandalotus bryophagus (a species of weevil)
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.
TMAG collections
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Curculionoidea
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Entiminae
Tribe: Leptopiini
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 4.5
Flightedness: (not yet documented)
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: wood-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic
Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Hand collection from under bark (tree species not specified) — Knockdown spraying of bark of Eucalyptus sp. — Pitfall trapping.
Source ecological literature:
Grove, S.J. & Yaxley, B. (2005). Wildlife habitat strips and native forest ground-active beetle assemblages in plantation nodes in northeast Tasmania. Aust. J. Entom. 44 (4): 331-343.
