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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Primitive Weevils (Brentidae) » Pear-shaped Weevils (Apioninae) » Oxystomatini » Synapiina » Ischnopterapion » White Clover Weevil (Ischnopterapion virens)
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Tiny Metallic Blue-Green Weevil - Ischnopterapion virens - female
Copyright © 2009 Ashley Bradford

Tiny Metallic Blue-Green Weevil - Ischnopterapion virens - Female
Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
July 25, 2009
Size: 3 mm incl. proboscis

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Tiny Metallic Blue-Green Weevil - Ischnopterapion virens - female Tiny Metallic Blue-Green Weevil - Ischnopterapion virens - female Tiny Metallic Blue-Green Weevil - Ischnopterapion virens - female Tiny Metallic Blue-Green Weevil - Ischnopterapion virens - female
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Contributed by Ashley Bradford on 25 July, 2009 - 1:25pm
Last updated 4 February, 2012 - 10:41am

Moved
Moved from Fallapion finitimum.
… v belov, 4 February, 2012 - 10:30am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 25 July, 2009 - 1:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
All the Apions look so similar - how can you tell? I still have this weevil in case you'd like me to try for any other pictures before I let it go.
… Ashley Bradford, 25 July, 2009 - 1:39pm login or register to post comments

 
in fact,
they are quite diverse and mostly IDable from good pictures -- it's only a matter of practice; i used to have a collection of some 100+ apionine spp. back in the old country, and still can ID many of the Eastern European spp. from images -- esp. given rich online sources available nowadays. Apion (in the old sense, what is now Apionini) were my first love as a teenage beetle enthusiast.
… v belov, 25 July, 2009 - 2:24pm login or register to post comments

 
Well
that is very cool. =) Do you still collect?
… Ashley Bradford, 25 July, 2009 - 2:43pm login or register to post comments

 
i switched careers and quit collecting 18 years ago
*
… v belov, 25 July, 2009 - 2:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Well then
I won't offer to send you this one. ;-)
… Ashley Bradford, 25 July, 2009 - 2:54pm login or register to post comments

 
but...
...keeping [properly labeled] specimens of all sorts of small & obscure stuff to show to the specialists would be a good idea -- and you have great institutions in your area (NMNH will meet all of your needs)
… v belov, 25 July, 2009 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

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