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Small weevil - Acanthoscelides longistilus

Small weevil - Acanthoscelides longistilus
Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 18, 2011
Size: 1.9 mm

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Small weevil - Acanthoscelides longistilus Lateral - Acanthoscelides longistilus Left antenna - Acanthoscelides longistilus Right hind tibia - Acanthoscelides longistilus Right hind leg - Acanthoscelides longistilus Base of right antenna - Acanthoscelides longistilus Backside - Acanthoscelides longistilus

Moved tentatively
thanks all!

Moved from Acanthoscelides.

Acanthoscelides longistylus?
Looks a lot like this one: http://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/album/024108010ap.html

 
thanks, Rob
Don Chandler also confirms that this guy matches specimens from their UNH collection; that was my best choice, too --but the metatibia illustrated in Kingsolver's handbook steered me off...

 
Found a better picture
I replaced the tibia with a better one I found in the corner of another shot where I wasn't even aiming at the tibia.

 
that new tibial shot says it all, John!
now everything makes perfect sense...

nice; will try harder
would appreciate a closeup of the pygiduim, antenna, and metatibia

Moved from Beetles.

 
thanks for the added pix
they seem to show enough, yet i failed to find a reasonable match not only among the very few New England representatives, but among the entire ne. US fauna...
i must be missing something

 
Immigrant?
Maybe it's European, or otherwise introduced.

 
please look for more and try to figure out the host plant

 
Host plant...
...is Black Locust Robinia pseudoacacia, assuming this came from a tree or sapling.

 
Same place as...
Same place as this one

 
amazing; you're very good at finding funny bruchines
it would be a very good idea to collect them; also, Kingsolver's manual is available online(1)

 
"metafemur usually not strongly swollen"
This guy has a swollen metafemur. The key says "metafemur usually not strongly swollen."

 
viable hypothesis
i'll pursue this line of inquiry...

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