Soronia superba Reitter, 1873 (a species of sap-beetle)

TMAG collections

Typical length (mm): 4.5
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

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

Ecological attributes: — Found in galls of Uromycladium on Acacia dealbata (Bashford, 2002).

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Flight intercept trapping (trough below Malaise trap) — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Knockdown fogging of canopy of Eucalyptus obliqua — Rearing in insectary (host not documented) — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus nitens — Trapping using a range of devices placed in crown of Eucalyptus obliqua (Bar-Ness, 2005).

Source ecological literature:
Grove, S.J. (2009b). Beetles and fuelwood harvesting: a retrospective study from Tasmania’s southern forests. Tasforests 18: 77-99.
Bar-Ness, Y. (2005). Crown structure and the canopy arthropod biodiversity of 100 year old and old-growth Tasmanian Eucalyptus obliqua. Msc thesis, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.
Bashford, R. (2002a). The insect fauna inhabiting Uromycladium (Uredinales) rust galls on silver wattle (Acacia dealbata) in Tasmania. Aust. Entom. 29 (3): 81-95.