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Unusual green and black weevil, 1 cm long. It has a short, bulbous snout. Family Curculionidae.
Heavy shrubbery along the highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, km 11.5, 865 meters.
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This, in any case, belongs in Curculionidae proper (antennae elbowed)
Thank you thaptor, I am so curious also. This one has the same weird short bulbous snout, but is a much smaller weevil: (http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/164...).
I am very curious what this turns out to be.
Have already seen two alike on NaturaLista - my feeling is this weevils are only short-nosed, not Broad-nosed (= subfam. Entiminae); may be a Cocoon weevil (Hyperinae), or somthing else . . .