
Promecoderus viridiaeneus
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)
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
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.



