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Sirrhas limbatus Champion, 1893 (a species of promecheilid 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.

TMAG collections

Classification
Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Tnenbrionoidea

Family: Promecheilidae

Morphology
Typical length (mm): (not yet documented)
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: (not yet documented)
Association with dead wood or old trees: at least facultatively saproxylic

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Baited trapping (funnel trap) — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Hand collection from under bark (tree species not specified) — Knockdown fogging of canopy of Nothofagus cunninghamii — Pitfall trapping — Vane trapping.

Sirrhas limbatus
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