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Simsonia tasmanicus (Blackburn, 1894) (a species of riffle-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 Simsonia tasmanica)

TMAG collections

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Byrrhoidea

Family: Elmidae

Subfamily: Elminae

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 4.2
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

(ecology not yet documented)

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