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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Curculioninae » Smicronychini » Smicronyx » Subgenus Pachyphanes (Smicronyx Subgenus Pachyphanes) » Smicronyx discoideus
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Curculionidae on sneezeweed - Smicronyx discoideus - male - female
Copyright © 2008 MJ Hatfield

Curculionidae on sneezeweed - Smicronyx discoideus - Male Female
Plymouth Rock, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
August 11, 2008
Size: 3+ mm
Collected on Helenium autumnale, sneezeweed, in a reconstructed prairie wet area.
Identified by Laura Rericha. She says: "It also occurs on these additional genera in the family Asteraceae: Gaillardia, Croton, and Anthemis."

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Curculionidae on sneezeweed - Smicronyx discoideus - male - female Curculionidae on sneezeweed - Smicronyx discoideus - male - female Hostplant: Helenium autumnale, sneezeweed herbivory - Smicronyx discoideus Curculionidae on sneezeweed, lateral - Smicronyx discoideus Curculionidae on sneezeweed, dorsal - Smicronyx discoideus
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 28 November, 2008 - 8:42am
Last updated 10 January, 2013 - 8:21pm

Moved
Moved from Erirhininae.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 29 November, 2008 - 2:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Moved
Thanks, (times 6.)
… MJ Hatfield, 29 November, 2008 - 2:10pm login or register to post comments

Any chance
of getting a cropped, enlarged view that better shows the weevils?
… Jim McClarin, 28 November, 2008 - 1:49pm login or register to post comments

 
weevils
Is that better?
… MJ Hatfield, 28 November, 2008 - 2:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Yup.
They're pintos!
… Jim McClarin, 28 November, 2008 - 3:14pm login or register to post comments

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