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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Broad-nosed Weevils (Entiminae) » Sitonini » Sitona » Clover Root Weevil  (Sitona lepidus)
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Weevil - Sitona lepidus
Copyright © 2007 Mardon Erbland

Weevil - Sitona lepidus
48.163979N 53.964966W (WGS84), Clarenville, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
July 5, 2007
Size: 5mm body length
I don't think I've photographed this type of weevil before. I believe the closest I've come is
Hairy Weevil? - Barypeithes pellucidus
but I think that is not exactly the same as the current individual.
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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 7 July, 2007 - 4:27pm
Last updated 13 July, 2007 - 2:31pm

Moved
Moved from Aphids.
… Mardon Erbland, 13 July, 2007 - 2:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sitona.
… Mardon Erbland, 13 July, 2007 - 2:29pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Broad-nosed Weevils.
… Mardon Erbland, 9 July, 2007 - 11:57am login or register to post comments

Sitona sp.
. . . vestiture heavily rubbed-off, so I can´t tell for sure whether it is S.lepidus - but I assume it is (small pit on center of head points to it).
… Boris Büche, 9 July, 2007 - 11:42am login or register to post comments

 
Worn vestiture?
Thank you for the ID.  Earlier in June I photographed another individual that you identified to species Sitona lepidus, so they definately live here.
Entiminae, Genus Sitona? - Sitona lepidus

What would cause the vestiture to get like that.  Is it just age or trauma or something else?  Until reading your note, I thought it was the natural colour.
… Mardon Erbland, 9 July, 2007 - 12:05pm login or register to post comments

 
worn vestiture
Dear Mardon,
weevils tend to be rather long-lived, and while crawling around, and inbetween obstacles, may loose some, to nearly all of the scale-like hairs that make up their colour pattern.
As you tell already having photographed S.lepidus in the spot, I think it is safe to move this one to species.
… Boris Büche, 11 July, 2007 - 5:43am login or register to post comments

Moved
to Subfamily Entiminae - Broad-nosed Weevils.
… Jim McClarin, 8 July, 2007 - 9:37am login or register to post comments

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