Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Weevil ID help
#1
I found this tiny Weevil on one of my Anthemis plants last summer.
The Rostrum is distinctly curved and the antennae elbowed.
The hindbody is pear-shaped.
Has anyone any ideas?
Tony from Tilehurst, Reading, Berks, UK.
Posted by
Sundew on 13-04-2008 00:03
#2
Family Apionidae; possibly
Omphalapion hookeri (see
http://www.mcclay...oSheet.pdf) who is looking for the right composite flower head to oviposit? However, the rostrum of this species might be shorter than that of your beetle. Search under Apionidae in
http://www.koleop...index.html.
Regards, Sundew
Posted by
Sundew on 13-04-2008 18:45
#4
Juergen is right. My knowledge of beetles stems from the times when Apionidae were no separate family but part of Curculionidae, and I thought that all the tiny ones with long rostrum would now constitute an own family. However, I meanwhile learned that the Apionids should have no elbowed antennae, so the depicted weevil who has clearly elbowed antennae is a Curculionid, and
Anthonomus rubi is a good choice then.
Sundew
#5
Thanks Juergen and Sundew for your help.
Best Regards
Tony.