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Curculionidae: Mecopus sp.
I believe it's a kind of Snout beetle, possibly Bagous, but can't find one identical to this for positive ident.
Spotted on Nov 25, 2013
Submitted on Nov 25, 2013
3 Comments
Hi Rob!
Thanks for the ident
HI Viv
Curculionidae: Mecopus sp.
http://www.padil.gov.au/pests-and-diseas...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecopus_(be...)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/87155171@N...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/87155171@N...
The legs and snout look longer than any of the beetle images I found. The closest was in the BugGuide.Net