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Common on damaged portion of a senescent taraire (Beilschmiedia tarairi) frunk. Fruiting bodies erupting through damaged bark, dark black, shattering into black charcoal like powder when handled. Fruiting body bearing numerous holes and burrows from I assume some invertebrate - I am calling this Biscogniauxia because the fruiting bodies look very similar to these observations - https://inaturalist.nz/observations/2704089, https://inaturalist.nz/observations/6739266, and https://inaturalist.nz/observations/8660273 except a very different host.

This weevil was observed at around 1000m on the slopes of Mount Ann in South West Tasmania. It has been identified by those at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery as likely to be an undescribed genus of Aterpini, or possibly in the genus Aoplocnemis. Further comments include "This is most likely an extremely rare genus and species due to how little representation it has in collections, including those at TMAG, and this photo is almost certainly the first Live Photo of it."