Tasmanobium mimicum Lea, 1924 (a species of furniture-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.

TMAG collections

Typical length (mm): 5
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Español, F. (1976). Contribución al conocimiento de los Anobium y generos afines de Australia y Nueva Zelanda (Col. Anobiidae, nota 71). Misc. Zool. 3 (5): 141-160.
*Lea, A.M. (1924). On Australian Anobiides (Coleoptera). Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A. 48: 15-64.

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

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Baited trapping (funnel trap) — Panel trapping — Sticky trapping on Eucalyptus obliqua.

Source ecological literature:
Harrison, K.S. (2007). Saproxylic beetles associated with habitat features in Eucalyptus obliqua trees in the southern forests of Tasmania. PhD thesis, Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.