Poropterus melancholicus Lea, 1911 (a species of weevil)

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 Poropterus melancholicus) 

TMAG collecctions

Typical length (mm): 7
Flightedness: functionally flightless

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

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Hand collection from Eucalyptus sp. — Hand collection from under bark (tree species not specified) — Pitfall trapping — Rearing in insectary (host not documented) — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus obliqua.

Source ecological literature:
Grove, S.J. (2009b). Beetles and fuelwood harvesting: a retrospective study from Tasmania’s southern forests. Tasforests 18: 77-99.

Grove, S.J. & Yaxley, B. (2005). Wildlife habitat strips and native forest ground-active beetle assemblages in plantation nodes in northeast Tasmania. Aust. J. Entom. 44 (4): 331-343.