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Meryx aequalis Blackburn, 1891 (a species of ulodid 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 Meryx aequalis)

TMAG collections

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea

Family: Ulodidae

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 12

Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: (not yet documented)
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic

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