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Tenebroides mauritanicus (Linnaeus, 1758) (a species of bark-gnawing 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 Tenebroides mauritanicus)

Non-native (?N African origin)

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Cleroidea

Family: Trogossitidae

Subfamily: Trogossitinae

Morphology

Typical length (mm): (not yet documented)
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

(ecology not yet documented)

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