Explanation of Names
SCUTELLUMALBUM means "white scutellum" - a distinctive feature of the adult
Identification
Adult: body cylindrical, dark gray to blackish above, pale gray or whitish below; scutellum white, tiny; elytra striated; pronotum relatively smooth; beak moderately long and strongly downcurved; antennae elbowed, arising more than halfway along beak, and with ovate clubbed tips
Range
Ontario, Quebec, and New York to Florida, west to Texas and Minnesota
Habitat
adults often visit flowers of herbaceous plants
Season
adults present from June to September
Remarks
page creation based on Donald Chandler's identification of several images posted to BugGuide; no other photos could be found on the Internet as of May 2006
Internet References
distribution in Canada; PDF doc recorded from Ontario and Quebec only (J. McNamara, Curculionidae; Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska)
distribution in United States list of boundary states (Michael Thomas, Florida State Collection of Arthropods)
abundance and seasonality in Minnesota list of observations (Insects of Cedar Creek, Minnesota)
