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Brentidae Family
Distinguished by their very long and narrow body, usually black with yellow stripes along the elytra. Usually diurnal they can be found in rotten trees. The elongated shape of their bodies is because they live in holes in trees dug by other insects
Spotted on Apr 9, 2012
Submitted on Apr 9, 2012
17 Comments
How long is it ?
Gracias Luis
Excelente!
jaja yo hubiera estado igual,
Fue increíble poder encontrar uno de estos, para decirlo en buen tico cuando lo vi casi me orino de la emoción jaja
Q bueno nunca he visto de estos
Wow! We have tons of Brentidae here... Amazing. Thanks
Gracias harsuame
Grandioso muy interesante
Unfortunately there are almost 600 species of Brentidae in Costa Rica! Great spotting!!
Thanks Karen and OnengDyah
Cute..
Awesome!
I knew it could be not the real common name, thanks for the right name and the new info, i really had no idea about it. I'll add it to the descripcion
By the way, they have the elongated shape because they live in holes in trees that were dug out by other insects.
Nice spotting! The common name for these weeviloids are the "straight-snouted" weevils. The Giraffe weevils belong to the Family Attelabidae. It looks like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...
Thanks VivBraznell
That is so cool!! Great photos Ignacio