Nargiotes tasmanianum (a species of round fungus-beetle)
Basis for Tasmanian occurrence
Giachino, P.M. & Peck, S.B. (2003). Revisions of the Cholevinae (the small carrion beetles) of Australia. 1. The genus Nargiotes Jeannel, 1936 (Coleoptera, Leiodidae). Ed. Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds), Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I., pp. pp. 187-280, Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35.
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Staphylinoidea
Family: Leiodidae
Subfamily: Cholevinae
Tribe: Anemadini
Morphology
Typical length (mm): (not yet documented)
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where known):
*Giachino, P.M. & Peck, S.B. (2003). Revisions of the Cholevinae (the small carrion beetles) of Australia. 1. The genus Nargiotes Jeannel, 1936 (Coleoptera, Leiodidae). Ed. Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds), Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I., pp. pp. 187-280, Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35.
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: fungus-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: at least facultatively saproxylic
