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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Molytinae » Rhyssomatus » Rhyssomatus aequalis
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Snout Beetle - Rhyssomatus aequalis
Copyright © 2005 bughunter

Snout Beetle - Rhyssomatus aequalis
Grant County, Kentucky, USA
March 6, 2005
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Contributed by bughunter on 13 April, 2005 - 7:58pm
Last updated 23 May, 2017 - 2:07pm

Moved
Moved from Rhyssomatus.
… v belov, 8 July, 2010 - 1:02am login or register to post comments

ID
Rhyssomatus aequalis Horn Not recorded from KY, but not a surprising range extension.
… Charles W. O'Brien, 8 July, 2010 - 1:00am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Molytinae.
… John R. Maxwell, 19 September, 2008 - 5:57pm login or register to post comments

can be safely moved to Rhyssomatus page
(perhaps aequalis Horn, 1873?)
… v belov, 19 September, 2008 - 11:01am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Snout and Bark Beetles.
… tom murray, 11 September, 2008 - 5:15pm login or register to post comments

must be in the Molytinae
quite possibly a Rhyssomatus
… v belov, 11 September, 2008 - 12:11am login or register to post comments

Weevil.
Really nice image of a weevil of some kind. The Curculionidae is a huge family, so we might never get any closer than that, but the beak-like snout (they still have chewing mouthparts at the end of that stalk) and the elbowed antennae are clues to the family ID.
… Eric R. Eaton, 14 April, 2005 - 7:13pm login or register to post comments

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