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Weevil

Description:

Unusual green and black weevil, 1 cm long. It has a short, bulbous snout. Family Curculionidae.

Habitat:

Heavy shrubbery along the highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, km 11.5, 865 meters.

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3 Comments

thaptor
thaptor 5 years ago

This, in any case, belongs in Curculionidae proper (antennae elbowed)

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 5 years ago

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...).

thaptor
thaptor 5 years ago

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 . . .

LaurenZarate
Spotted by
LaurenZarate

Chiapas, Mexico

Spotted on Aug 20, 2013
Submitted on Nov 3, 2013

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