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Alcidodes waltoni
Forest edge. On the leaf of this spotting ~ http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/157...
When I disturbed the leaf that this weevil was on, it immediately moved onto its side and tucked its legs in mimicking a dead flower/bud/leaf (image 3)
Thailand is full of it :-) I'm certainly no expert - just doing same as you Viv but I think Michael really knows beetles. Great to have such expertise in here. Thanks Michael.
Right!. Firstly thank you MichaelGeiser for the correct ident .. much appreciated. Secondly to Mark Ridgway .. thank you. When I uploaded this spotting the name Elephant Snout Weevil came into my mind .... not sure how it got in there, I guess I must have come across the name while searching at some point, so I Googled it and up came this image that looked very much like mine in The Featured Creature website. Wow! I thought to myself, I've been able to find the correct ident for this spotting ... gave myself a pat on the back and entered the info etc. I asked Michael for a link because I could'nt find one with an image for me to look at. Having now looked at the link that you provided Mark and seen the 'lumpy' ( love that description) beetle that is in fact an Elephant Snout Weevil I know that mine is not ...... I do try to find idents wherever possible, the majority I leave to the experts like yourselves. I'm a complete amateur, love finding new wildlife here in Thailand and like to share with PN and increase my knowledge a little .... thanks again to you both .. Viv : )
The Featured Creature website is probably not a good reference Viv. They just grab and re-package stuff they like the look of from other websites without checking details. We've had to ask them to credit Noah references in the past.
Orthorhinus cylindrirostris is an Australian species. I don't think it even occurs in Thailand. One of the pictures from http://www.thefeaturedcreature.com/, that shows up in Google Image search is obviously misidentified. These two species don't even look very similar, apart from both being weevils (like 60'000 others).
O cylindrirostris looks like a lumpy beetle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorhinu...
I think the weevils in your reference have been mixed up.
Thanks for the link MichaelGeiser ... So are you saying it cannot be Orthorhinus cylindrirostris ~ Elephant Snout Weevil? I am a complete amateur at identifying many of my spottings but thought this looked identical to the link I provided.
Hi MichaelGeister I can't find a photo of Alcidodes cf. waltoni to compare. Can you give me a link please
Spotted on Jan 21, 2014
Submitted on Jan 26, 2014
