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Phloiotrya velutina (Champion, 1895) (a species of false darkling-beetle)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence

TMAG collections

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea

Family: Melandryidae

Subfamily: Melandryinae

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 8
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

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

Phloiotrya-velutina
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