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Promecoderus viridiaeneus Sloane, 1915 (a species of ground-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.

TMAG collections

Classification
Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Adephaga

Superfamily: Caraboidea

Family: Carabidae

Subfamily: Broscinae

Tribe: Broscini

Morphology
Typical length (mm): 17
Flightedness: (not yet documented)

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
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

Ecological attributes: — Forest generalist (Grove, 2009).

Collection method(s) for TFIC material: — Pitfall trapping.

Source ecological literature:
Grove, S.J. (2009). Do wildlife habitat strips act as refuges for mature-forest carabid beetle assemblages? A case-study in Tasmanian wet eucalypt forest, Australia. For. Ecol. Manage. 259: 496-504.

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