(a species of minute moss-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 Ochthebius macrognathus)
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Staphylinoidea
Family: Hydraenidae
Subfamily: Ochthebiinae
Tribe: Ochthebiini
Morphology
Typical length (mm): (not yet documented)
Flightedness: (not yet documented)
Information on taxonomy or morphology (*primary taxonomic source)
Perkins, P.D. (2006). A revision of the Australian humicolous and hygropetric water beetle genus Tympanogaster Perkins, and comparative morphology of the Meropathina (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 1346(1346):1-396.
Ecology
(ecology not yet documented)
