Tenebrio molitor (yellow mealworm)
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
Not native, probably of European origin.
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea
Family: Tenebrionidae
Subfamily: Tenebrioninae
Tribe: Tenebrionini
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 11
Flightedness: (not yet documented)
Ecology
(ecology not yet documented)
