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Dorytomus mucidus, Richmond County, NY - Dorytomus mucidus
Copyright © 2025 Jose R. Ramirez-Garofalo

Dorytomus mucidus, Richmond County, NY - Dorytomus mucidus
Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, USA
July 11, 2025
Found inside of a Tree Swallow box (on a poplar) at Freshkills Park, NYC. Species associated with poplar in native range. Sequencing came back 95-98% match for D. mucidus (three specimens).
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Contributed by Jose R. Ramirez-Garofalo on 11 July, 2025 - 4:11pm
Last updated 31 July, 2025 - 2:27pm

ID updated + Sequencing results
Updated to D. mucidus. Sequencing for three specimens came back 95-98% match for mucidus. Thanks, everyone!!
… Jose R. Ramirez-Garofalo, 31 July, 2025 - 2:25pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Dorytomus.
… v belov, 24 July, 2025 - 1:49pm login or register to post comments

how was the id obtained? please elaborate
are there any New World records of longimanus? please cite.
this thing doesn't look like longimanus to me, or to R.S. Anderson (pers.comm.), but is not inconsistent with D. mucidus, a very common native weevil

Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 17 July, 2025 - 10:43am login or register to post comments

 
Rick Hoebeke agrees this is probably D. mucidus
see also (1)
… v belov, 18 July, 2025 - 3:38pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
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