
Toxicum insigne (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
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)
