Xylobosca canina (Blackburn, 1893) (a species of false powderpost-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.

TMAG collections

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Bostrichoidea

Family: Bostrichidae

Subfamily: Bostrichinae

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 4
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: wood-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic

Ecological attributes: — Breeds in dead or dying Acacia dealbata trees (Bashford, 1991).

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — At light (with use of light-trap) — Baited trapping (funnel trap) — Panel trapping — Pipe trapping — Rearing in insectary (host not documented) — Rearing in insectary from Acacia botrycephala — Rearing in insectary from Acacia mearnsii — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus obliqua — Rearing in insectary from Eucalyptus viminalis — Sticky trapping (substrate not specified) — Vane trapping.

Source ecological literature:
Bashford, R. (1991). Wood-boring Coleoptera and associated insects reared from Acacia dealbata Link in Tasmania. Aust. Entom. Mag. 18 (3): 103-110.