Select Page

Vadumcyphon variegata (Carter, 1935) (a species of marsh-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 Pseudomicrocara variegata)

Not present in Tasmania according to Watts et al. (2020): Watts, C.H.S, Bradford, T.M., Cooper, S.J.B & Libonatti, T.M. (2020). New genera, species and combinations in the Pseudomicrocara Armstrong group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) based on morphology supported by mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequence data. Zootaxa 4831: 1 -66.

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Scirtoidea

Family: Scirtidae

Morphology

Typical length (mm): (not yet documented)
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Publications on taxonomy and morphology (*primary taxonomic source, where identified)
Watts, C.H.S. (2007). Revision of Australian Pseudomicrocara Armstrong (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 131(1): 1-82.
Watts, C.H.S, Bradford, T.M., Cooper, S.J.B & Libonatti, T.M. (2020). New genera, species and combinations in the Pseudomicrocara Armstrong group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) based on morphology supported by mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequence data. Zootaxa 4831: 1 -66.

Ecology

(ecology not yet documented)

Species image
Map image