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Porrostoma fuscolineatus Waterhouse, 1879 (a species of net-winged 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 Metriorrhynchus fuscolineatus)

TMAG collections

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Elateroidea

Family: Lycidae

Subfamily: Metriorrhynchinae

Tribe: Metriorrhynchini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 14
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

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

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