Tychreus camelus Pascoe, 1870 (a species of weevil)
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: Curculionoidea
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Molytinae
Tribe: Cryptorhynchini
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 6
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: wood-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic
Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Baited trapping (funnel trap) — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Knockdown fogging of canopy of Nothofagus cunninghamii — Malaise trapping — Pipe trapping — Rearing in insectary (host not documented) — Rearing in insectary from Acacia dealbata — Rearing in insectary from Banksia marginata — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus obliqua.
