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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Molytinae » Conotrachelini » Conotrachelus » Conotrachelus posticatus
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BG2372 E9048 - Conotrachelus posticatus
Copyright © 2010 Gayle and Jeanell Strickland

BG2372 E9048 - Conotrachelus posticatus
Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
July 8, 2010
Size: body length 4.6 mm.
The best match we found was Conotrachelus posticatus.
Placement would be appreciated

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Contributed by Gayle and Jeanell Strickland on 13 August, 2010 - 12:48am
Last updated 13 August, 2010 - 9:12am

Moved
Moved from Snout and Bark Beetles.
… Gayle and Jeanell Strickland, 13 August, 2010 - 9:12am login or register to post comments

posticatus sounds fine to me
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… v belov, 13 August, 2010 - 8:19am login or register to post comments

 
ID confirmed by R.S. Anderson
his comment: "I'd call this one posticatus also. You know, this thing goes all the way down into Panama and I can't help but wonder if there might be more than one species as there is some variation."

(i asked Bob to check 'cuz i grew unhappy about my call here. with close to a hundred spp. in the genus one can't be too cautious. =v=)
… v belov, 5 October, 2010 - 11:11am login or register to post comments

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