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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Pea and Bean Weevils (Bruchinae) » Bruchini » Acanthoscelidina » Gibbobruchus » Redbud Bruchid (Gibbobruchus mimus)
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Peering into the Void - Gibbobruchus mimus
Copyright © 2005 Patrick Alexander

Peering into the Void - Gibbobruchus mimus
Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana, USA
June 22, 2004
I seem to remember someone telling me this was a chrysomelid, but that's as much as I know.
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Contributed by Patrick Alexander on 4 November, 2005 - 4:15pm
Last updated 19 May, 2012 - 5:10pm

Moved
Moved from Pea and Bean Weevils.
… Boris Büche, 25 May, 2007 - 8:39am login or register to post comments

Gibbobruchus mimus
36338- Gibbobruchus mimus

Dr. John M. Kingsolver
Florida State Collection of Arthropods
Gainsville, FL
… Jim McClarin, 7 February, 2007 - 9:08pm login or register to post comments

Seed weevil.
A leaf beetle in the subfamily Bruchinae (family Chrysomelidae). Nice image of an insect not often photographed.
… Eric R. Eaton, 4 November, 2005 - 6:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Cool. Thanks! As I recall t
Cool. Thanks! As I recall there were really quite a lot of these little guys going after Asclepis along with the Tetraopes and some soldier beetles.

Patrick Alexander
http://boechera.nmsu.edu/~paalexan/
… Patrick Alexander, 4 November, 2005 - 7:03pm login or register to post comments

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