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Tessaromma undatum Newman, 1840 (a species of longhorn-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: Chrysomeloidea

Family: Cerambycidae

Subfamily: Cerambycinae

Tribe: Tessarommatini

Morphology
Typical length (mm): 14
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Ślipiński, A. & Escalona, H. (2016). Australian longhorn beetles (Coleoptea: Cerambycidae), Volume 2: Subfamily Cerambycinae. CSIRO publishing, 640 pp.

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

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — At light (no trap specified) — At light (with use of light-trap) — Baited trapping (funnel trap) — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Not specified — Panel trapping — Pipe trapping — Rearing in insectary (host not documented) — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus amygdalina — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus dalrypleana — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus delegatensis — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus globulus — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus nitens — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus obliqua — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus ovata — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus tenuiramis — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus viminalis — Vane trapping.

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