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Monocrepidus cordieri (LeGuillou, 1844) (a species of click-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.

TMAG collections

Classification
Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Elateroidea

Family: Elateridae

Subfamily: Agrypninae

Morphology
Typical length (mm): 19
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: root-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: at least facultatively saproxylic

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — At light (with use of light-trap) — Baited trapping (funnel trap) — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Hand collection from Eucalyptus amygdalina — Hand collection from Eucalyptus nitens — Hand collection from Eucalyptus ovata — Hand collection from Eucalyptus regnans — Hand collection from Eucalyptus rodwayi — Hand collection from Pultenaea sp. — Hand collection from flowers of Eucryphia lucida (Ettershanks & Ettershanks, 1993) — Hand collection from under bark (tree species not specified) — Hand collection from under bark of Eucalyptus globulus — Malaise trapping — Pipe trapping — Pitfall trapping — Sticky trapping (substrate not specified) — Sticky trapping on Eucalyptus globulus — Sticky trapping on Eucalyptus obliqua — Vane trapping.

Source ecological literature:
Grove, S.J. (2009b). Beetles and fuelwood harvesting: a retrospective study from Tasmania’s southern forests. Tasforests 18: 77-99.
Harrison, K.S. (2007). Saproxylic beetles associated with habitat features in Eucalyptus obliqua trees in the southern forests of Tasmania. PhD thesis, Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.

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