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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Lixinae » Lixini » Eustenopus » Yellow Starthistle Hairy Weevil (Eustenopus villosus)
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Hairy Star Thistle Weevil - Eustenopus villosus
Copyright © 2008 Jim McClarin

Hairy Star Thistle Weevil - Eustenopus villosus
Cool, El Dorado County, California, USA
December 26, 2007
Size: about 6 mm sans snout
Found presumably overwintering in log. Boris has clued me in to the fact (or strong likelihood anyway) that I photographed a couple of these weevils several years ago that had lost their vestiture and therefore had a very different appearance:

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 14 February, 2008 - 9:26pm
Last updated 15 February, 2008 - 9:30am

Moved
Moved from Curculioninae.
… Jim McClarin, 15 February, 2008 - 9:22am login or register to post comments

Compare
images and links by your hand here!
… Boris Büche, 15 February, 2008 - 7:00am login or register to post comments

 
Well, well, well!
My old friend with its vestiture still intact! Thanks so much, Boris.
… Jim McClarin, 15 February, 2008 - 9:00am login or register to post comments

Bad hairday:-)
That's the hairiest weevil I've ever seen.
… tom murray, 14 February, 2008 - 10:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Lotsa hippies
in them Sierra Nevada foothills.
… Jim McClarin, 14 February, 2008 - 10:59pm login or register to post comments

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