Melobasis superba (Laporte & Gory, 1837) (a species of jewel-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: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Buprestoidea

Family: Buprestidae

Subfamily: Buprestinae

Tribe: Melobasini

Morphology

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

Ecology

(ecology not yet documented)