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Pseudolycus rufipennis Carter, 1905 (a species of false blister-beetle)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence

TMAG collections

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea

Family: Oedemeridae

Subfamily: Oedemerinae

Tribe: Asclerini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 15
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

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

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