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Toxicum insigne Carter, 1914 (a species of darkling-beetle)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence
TMAG collections
Classification
Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea

Family: Tenebrionidae

Subfamily: Tenebrioninae

Tribe: Toxicini

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

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
*Carter, H.J. (1915). Revision of the Australian Cistelidae, Order Coleoptera. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic. 28: 52-104.

Ecology
(ecology not yet documented)
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