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Millidium minutissimum (Ljungh, 1804) (a species of feather-winged beetle)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence

TMAG collections

Introduced (European origin)

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Staphylinoidea

Family: Ptiliidae

Subfamily: Ptiliinae

Tribe: Ptinellini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 0.7
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: fungivore
Association with dead wood or old trees: at least facultatively saproxylic

Millidium minutissimum
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