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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Curculioninae » Antlike Weevils (Otidocephalini) » Myrmex » Myrmex chevrolatii

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Copyright © 2007 john and jane balaban

Myrmex? - Myrmex chevrolatii

Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
July 16, 2007
Size: ~4.5mm

Saw this little "ant" walking around on a leaf but it just didn't look right. When we pointed the camera at it, we realized it had a great big schnozzle!

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Myrmex? - Myrmex chevrolatii

Myrmex? - Myrmex chevrolatii

Myrmex? - Myrmex chevrolatii

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 18 July, 2007 - 10:16pm
Last updated 9 February, 2009 - 5:15pm

Moved

Moved from Myrmex.

… Ken Schneider, 9 February, 2009 - 5:15pm

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Seems likely

I had the same experience yesterday here in West Virginia!

Your image looks very much like the Myrmex image in Stephen Marshall's book. He says 4 of the 5 northeastern Antlike Weevil species are in Myrmex and the 5th is Oopterinus perforatus. I can't find any pics of the latter in books or on the web, but it seems to have a very different life history from Myrmex and may well look different too. (O. perforatus lives inside root galls on Oaks, Marshall says.)

Anyhow I think you're right. My money's on Myrmex, since your image looks so much like Stephen Marshall's Myrmex photo. Maybe someday we'll find an image of Oopterinus to eliminate that possibility.

… Stephen_WV, 13 July, 2008 - 9:01am

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Found a Similar Looking Weevil Today in an Oak Gall

I found an old gall (~15mm diameter) on an oak twig that had fallen in my yard. There was a small bore hole (less than1 mm) into the gall. Upon teasing it apart out popped a small ~5mm black weevil. I did not have access to a decent camera but I got some crappy pics by combining my iPhone and my 10X loupe to make an ad-hoc macro setup. If there is any interest I can post the pics but they are sub-standard. It looked a lot like these pics, including the white line down its side. Though its legs were far less hairy.

This is in Fairfax City, VA BTW...

… Jeff Clark, 25 April, 2010 - 6:47pm

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Found a Similar Looking Weevil Today in an Oak Gall

I found an old gall (~15mm diameter) on an oak twig that had fallen in my yard. There was a small bore hole (

… Jeff Clark, 25 April, 2010 - 6:46pm

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