Quasiphneope quadrimaculata (Van de Poll, 1891) (a species of longhorn-beetle)

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 Aphneope quadrimaculator)

TMAG collections

Typical length (mm): 10
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Ślipiński, A. & Escalona, H. (2016). Australian longhorn beetles (Coleoptea: Cerambycidae), Volume 2: Subfamily Cerambycinae. CSIRO publishing, 640 pp.

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

Ecological attributes: — Breeds in dead or dying Acacia dealbata trees (Bashford, 1991).

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — At light (with use of light-trap) — Flight intercept trapping (trough below Malaise trap) — Malaise trapping — Not specified — Rearing in insectary (host not documented) — Rearing in insectary from Acacia dealbata — Rearing in insectary from Nematolepis squamea — Sticky trapping on Eucalyptus viminalis.

Source ecological literature:
Grove, S.J. (2009b). Beetles and fuelwood harvesting: a retrospective study from Tasmania’s southern forests. Tasforests 18: 77-99.
Bashford, R. (1991). Wood-boring Coleoptera and associated insects reared from Acacia dealbata Link in Tasmania. Aust. Entom. Mag. 18 (3): 103-110.