Anilara obscura

	male	female
L1	4.4	3.35 – 5.9	n = 52	4.7	3.4 – 6.1	n = 37
L2	4.3	3.2 – 5.2	n = 19	4.9	3.25 – 5.8	n = 12
W	1.8	1.4 – 2.2	n = 52	1.9	1.3 – 2.5	n = 37

male

female

4.4

3.35 – 5.9

n = 52

4.7

3.4 – 6.1

n = 37

4.3

3.2 – 5.2

n = 19

4.9

3.25 – 5.8

n = 12

1.8

1.4 – 2.2

n = 52

1.9

1.3 – 2.5

n = 37

Red-brown to grey-brown, with a moderately short pronotum that is only gently contracted near the base. On the ventral side between the metacoxae males have a weak boss that is not usually darkened and is obtusely angled at is anterior end.

An extremely abundant and widely distributed species that often occurs together with the larger and more elongate Anilara longicollis on the dead or dying twigs and foliage of fallen Eucalypt branches.

I have collected adults from the dead foliage of a wide range of Eucalyptus species, and reared them from billets cut from fallen branches of Grey Box E. microcarpa in Adelaide. I also extracted dead remains of one individual from a dead fallen branch of E. microcarpa at another nearby site. A second larval host plant species was revealed by A.M.P. Stolarski who extracted two dead individuals in the SE Region from a stem of Ridge-fruit Mallee E. incrassata which had fallen over about 12 months earlier. It is expected that breeding wold occur in at least most of the Eucalypt species on which the adults have been found.

Legend	L1	length from clypeus/frons to elytral apex (mean, range, sample size)
	L2	length from anterior of edge of eyes to elytral apex
	W	maximum width with elytra fully closed

Legend		live emerged adults, count > median value of 14 per quarter month
		live emerged adults, count <= median value of 14
		live non-emerged adults only, for that quarter month
	12	number of active beetles for that quarter month

Legend	beetles	count of beetles collected from, or sighted on, host plant taxon
	sites	count of major sites (unique 10 km grid cells +/- some distinct approximate localities)
	*	indicates alien (non-native) plant occurrences, either wild or planted (the species may be alien in SA, or native in parts of its SA range)

Code		beetles	%	host plant taxa
M	Myrtaceae	292	99%	21
C	Casuarinaceae	2	1%	2
F	Fabaceae	2	1%	1

position	beetles	sites
on foliage or non-flowering plant	1	1
on dead foliage	301	44
other
on dead fallen branch stem	2	1

Legend		P.J.Lang collection vouchered records
		other private collection or museum specimens, or sightings

	records	sites	SA regions¹	family	adult dead	adult ex billet
Eucalyptus microcarpa	9	1	SL	M	1	8
Eucalyptus incrassata	2	1	SE	M	2

Legend	records	count of breeding adults, pupae and larvae
	sites	count of major sites (unique 10 km grid cells +/- some distinct approximate localities)
	adult	live = extracted alive; dead = extracted dead as intact or fragmentary remains; ex billet = reared and emerged from stored sections of host; ex pupa = reared from sampled pupa
	pupa	extracted pupa; pupa ex larva = reared pupa from larva
	larva	extracted larva (any stage including prepupa)
	gall (only)	hatched or unhatched gall identified by form and position rather than contents

¹ Legend	regions	SA State Herbarium regions (map) EA: Eastern, EP: Eyre Peninsula, FR: Flinders Ranges, GT: Gairdner-Torrens, KI: Kangaroo Island, LE: Lake Eyre, MU: Murray, NL: Northern Lofty, NU: Nullarbor, NW: North-Western, SE: South-Eastern, SL: Southern Lofty, YP: Yorke Peninsula
	size	The ellipse is the correct size when printed, indicative on a desktop screen, and likely to be wrong on a mobile device.