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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Dryophthorinae » Rhynchophorini » Sphenophorina » Billbugs (Sphenophorus) » Sphenophorus coesifrons
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what species？ - Sphenophorus coesifrons
Copyright © 2012 Li

what species？ - Sphenophorus coesifrons
Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, USA
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Contributed by Li on 4 February, 2012 - 2:11pm
Last updated 4 February, 2012 - 7:25pm

Moved
Moved from Billbugs.
… Brad Barnd, 4 February, 2012 - 7:25pm login or register to post comments

ID
Sphenophorus coesifrons (Gyllenhal)Probably teneral. A not surprising New State Record.
… Charles W. O'Brien, 4 February, 2012 - 7:24pm login or register to post comments

 
thank you so much, Charlie!
… v belov, 4 February, 2012 - 7:30pm login or register to post comments

Maybe Sphenophorus parvulus, the "Bluegrass Billbug"
Moved from Snout and Bark Beetles.

An appropriate name in Kentucky, eh?
… Brad Barnd, 4 February, 2012 - 2:49pm login or register to post comments

 
most befitting!
pretty cool & intriguing one, actually: although it does look a lot like parvulus to me, too, but the strikingly wide interval 3 with multiple rows of punctures seems to distinguish it from any other exemplar of BGBB we've got in the guide...
i'll try harder
… v belov, 4 February, 2012 - 3:05pm login or register to post comments

 
good point
I've looked at the parvulus in my collection and none have that; i'll look around too
… Brad Barnd, 4 February, 2012 - 3:50pm login or register to post comments

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