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Rodwayia minuta Lea, 1907 (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 Rodwayia minuta)

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Staphylinoidea

Family: Ptiliidae

Subfamily: Cephaloplectinae

Morphology

Typical length (mm): (not yet documented)
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: fungivore
Association with dead wood or old trees: at least facultatively saproxylic

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