Ptinella simsoni (A. Matthews, 1878) (a species of feather-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 Ptilium simsoni)
TMAG collections
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Staphylinoidea
Family: Ptiliidae
Subfamily: Ptiliinae
Tribe: Ptinellini
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 0.8
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: fungivore
Association with dead wood or old trees: at least facultatively saproxylic
