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Petrocyphon tasmanicus Zwick, 2012 (a species of marsh-beetle)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence

Zwick, P. (2012). Australian marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 1. Additions to genus Petrocyphon. Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera 108: 159-180. (as Petrocyphon tasmanicus)

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Scirtoidea

Family: Scirtidae

Morphology

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

Publications on taxonomy and morphology (*primary taxonomic source, where identified)
*Zwick, P. (2012). Australian marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 1. Additions to genus Petrocyphon. Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera 108: 159-180.

Ecology

(ecology not yet documented)

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