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Tiny gray weevil - Coelocephalapion
Copyright © 2016 Ken Schneider

Tiny gray weevil - Coelocephalapion
Turtle Mountain Road near CA-95, San Bernardino County, California, USA
December 8, 2016
Size: ca 2 mm
I beat this tiny gray weevil, with orange femora and an orange rostrum, from a leafy shrub. The overall habitat was Creosote Bush scrub.

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 8 December, 2016 - 8:58pm
Last updated 25 December, 2016 - 10:17pm

Moved
Moved from Pear-shaped Weevils.
… v belov, 25 December, 2016 - 10:17pm login or register to post comments

Coelocephalapion?
Boris Buche thought the orange legs and rostrum might make this identifiable and suggested this genus - see his comments on my iNat posting of this same weevil:
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4739195
… Ken Schneider, 10 December, 2016 - 10:25am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.

Thanks! Feel free to frass as necessary.
… Ken Schneider, 8 December, 2016 - 9:09pm login or register to post comments

something in Apioninae
… Blaine Mathison, 8 December, 2016 - 9:05pm login or register to post comments

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