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Platisus bicolor (Smith, 1851) (a species of flat bark-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.. (as Platisus angusticollis)

Marris, J.W.M. (2016). A revision of the flat bark beetle genus Platisus Erichson, 1842 (Coleoptera: Cucujidae). Austral Entomology 56 (3): 277-295.

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Cucujoidea

Family: Cucujidae

Morphology

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

Ecology

(ecology not yet documented)

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