small punctate weevil - Notiodes ovalis

Moved

Moved from Notiodes.

… tom murray, 24 January, 2009 - 11:35am

N. ovalis (LeConte, 1876)

… v belov, 24 January, 2009 - 10:25am

Moved

See comments under the other image.

… tom murray, 19 September, 2008 - 9:07am

Moved

It sounds like someone needs to write a new easier to use key, Don:-)

… tom murray, 21 January, 2008 - 3:57pm

Better than a new key:

BugGuide! If it grows the same scale as it does now, the day we have most weevil genera here is not TOO far away!
Of course, many images already present await ID to genus level, but more images will for sure lure a specialist one day . . .

… Boris Büche, 22 January, 2008 - 1:41pm

Erirhinae (I think)

Found the specimen. Looks close to Notio*des (Erirhinae), but isn't any of the species we have, so not even sure of genus. Keying has proved impossible for me. The newest key to subfamilies (American Beetles) can only be used if you have a male and pull the genitalia (pretty useless to the majority of people) for a critical couplet very early in the key. The older ones are equally a challenge with Erirhinae keying out in four different places. Not a Smi*cronyx (now in Curculioninae I believe), but that is all I can say. I will let one of my weevil colleagues see it one of these days, and see if he can identify it and also ask him about this and the value of a *** key where you must pull the male genitalia to progress at the subfamily level.

… Donald S. Chandler, 21 January, 2008 - 10:01am

* * * key

Seems to me, this is a possible result of trying a 1:1 match of a key with current phylogenetics!
Errhirhinae is even regarded as a distinct family by some authors based on this difference in male genitalia. I wonder if really all genera now in the subfamily have been checked for if their * * * * is built that way or the other?

… Boris Büche, 21 January, 2008 - 10:09am

Moved

Moved from Acupalpus.

… tom murray, 2 April, 2007 - 4:56pm

Moved

Moved from Snout and Bark Beetles.

… tom murray, 2 April, 2007 - 4:55pm

MIGHT BE . . .

a Smicronyx in Erirhinae - but I´m not even sure about subfamily, sorry!

… Boris Büche, 2 April, 2007 - 11:42am

Puzzling little guy

When I saw it from directly above, it looked like the same size and shape as a small tick walking around.

… tom murray, 2 April, 2007 - 4:55pm

I don't

recognize it either - not a clue. Toss it into the pot for me. It is a nice photo.

… Donald S. Chandler, 2 April, 2007 - 7:29pm

Saved

I'll save it for you, and see if it can be figured out.

… tom murray, 2 April, 2007 - 9:10pm