Pentacosmia tasmanica Breuning, 1968 (a species of longhorn-beetle)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence

Ślipiński, A. & Escalona, H. (2013). Australian longhorn beetles (Coleoptea: Cerambycidae), Volume 1: Introduction and Subfamily Lamiinae. CSIRO publishing, 504 pp. (as Pentacosmia tasmanica)

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Chrysomeloidea

Family: Cerambycidae

Subfamily: Lamiinae

Tribe: Rhodopinini

Morphology

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

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Ślipiński, A. & Escalona, H. (2013). Australian longhorn beetles (Coleoptea: Cerambycidae), Volume 1: Introduction and Subfamily Lamiinae. CSIRO publishing, 504 pp.

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: wood-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic