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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Leaf Rolling Weevils (Attelabidae) » Leaf and Bud Weevils (Rhynchitinae) » Auletobius » Auletobius cassandrae

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Copyright © 2007 tom murray

Tooth-nosed Snout Weevil - Auletobius cassandrae

Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
September 15, 2007
Size: ~2mm

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Contributed by tom murray on 16 September, 2007 - 8:41am
Last updated 29 October, 2007 - 8:48am

Moved

Moved from Tooth-nosed Snout Weevils.

… tom murray, 29 October, 2007 - 8:48am

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Auletobius cassandrae

Finally got around to looking it up. Fairly common.

… Donald S. Chandler, 29 October, 2007 - 8:38am

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Tooth-nosed Snout Weevil

Thanks Boris. This is the smallest one in this subfamily so far.

… tom murray, 17 September, 2007 - 8:04am

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Attelabidae: Rhynchitinae

The other groups you suspected this weevil belonging to differ obviously, inter alia:
Brentidae: Apioninae - elytra well convex throughout transversally;
Nemonychidae - elytral puncturation confused.

… Boris Büche, 17 September, 2007 - 2:06am

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Boy!

Snout looks a little like a chicken neck so I wonder if this could be Poda*pion galli*cola. Another possibility, at least based on antennae and high "forehead," is Ne*monychidae.

… Jim McClarin, 16 September, 2007 - 9:05am

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Chicken neck?

I guess I didn't grow up on a farm:-)
It'll be interesting to see what this one turns out to be.

… tom murray, 16 September, 2007 - 9:38am

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I used backward engineering

starting with the name, which, if I have not completely botched the Latin (I probably have ;-), means chicken neck. Then I said, "Hey, the snout on Tom's beetle looks a little like a plucked, skinned chicken neck."

I'm usually way wrong when I try to do this but once in a rare while I nail it. Either I'm too smart by half or half as smart as I need to be.

… Jim McClarin, 16 September, 2007 - 10:16am

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I'll go with the "you're too smart" side

Latin is like Greek to me.

… tom murray, 16 September, 2007 - 10:55am

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