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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Curculioninae » Smicronychini » Smicronyx » Subgenus Desmoris (Smicronyx Subgenus Desmoris) » Gray Sunflower Seed Weevil (Smicronyx sordidus)
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Weevil -? - Smicronyx sordidus
Copyright © 2010 Kurt Schaefer

Weevil -? - Smicronyx sordidus
Texhoma, Texas County, Oklahoma, USA
August 23, 2009
Size: 6 mm

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Contributed by Kurt Schaefer on 11 January, 2010 - 7:40am
Last updated 11 January, 2010 - 8:39pm

Moved
Moved from Curculioninae.
… v belov, 11 January, 2010 - 8:39pm login or register to post comments

ID
Smicronyx sordidus LeConte Partially denuded and teneral (not fully mature color).
… Charles W. O'Brien, 11 January, 2010 - 8:30pm login or register to post comments

hmmm... maybe a Smicronyx this time?
Moved from Snout and Bark Beetles.
… v belov, 11 January, 2010 - 7:50am login or register to post comments

 
Anthonomus
is my guess.
… Blaine Mathison, 11 January, 2010 - 9:10am login or register to post comments

 
the eyes look too flush with the head capsule
*
… v belov, 11 January, 2010 - 9:20am login or register to post comments

 
yes
and the snout is more Smicronyx-like too (longer and straighter). We'll have to see what Charlie says :)
… Blaine Mathison, 11 January, 2010 - 3:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Dr. O'Brien, Vassili, and Blaine,
Thanks for the ID.
… Kurt Schaefer, 16 January, 2010 - 8:47am login or register to post comments

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