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Promecoderus subdepressus Guérin-Méneville, 1841 (a species of ground-beetle)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence

TMAG collections

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Adephaga

Superfamily: Caraboidea

Family: Carabidae

Subfamily: Broscinae

Tribe: Broscini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 13
Flightedness: (not yet documented)

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Sloane, T.G. (1890). Studies in Australian entomology. No. III – on and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proc. Linn. Soc. NSW 5: 189-242.
*Sloane, T.G. (1920). The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proc. Linn. Soc. NSW 45: 113-178.

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: predator
Association with dead wood or old trees: not saproxylic

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