Small weevil - Acanthoscelides longistilus

Moved tentatively

thanks all!

Moved from Acanthoscelides.

… v belov, 20 June, 2011 - 2:57pm

Acanthoscelides longistylus?

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

… Rob Westerduijn, 20 June, 2011 - 11:52am

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...

… v belov, 20 June, 2011 - 3:01pm

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.

… John F. Carr, 20 June, 2011 - 3:10pm

that new tibial shot says it all, John!

now everything makes perfect sense...

… v belov, 20 June, 2011 - 3:12pm

nice; will try harder

would appreciate a closeup of the pygiduim, antenna, and metatibia

Moved from Beetles.

… v belov, 18 June, 2011 - 7:27pm

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

… v belov, 19 June, 2011 - 6:23am

Immigrant?

Maybe it's European, or otherwise introduced.

… John F. Carr, 19 June, 2011 - 7:03pm

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

… v belov, 19 June, 2011 - 7:22pm

Host plant...

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

… John Pearson, 20 June, 2011 - 1:05pm

Same place as...

Same place as this one

… John F. Carr, 19 June, 2011 - 7:28pm

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)

… v belov, 19 June, 2011 - 7:33pm

"metafemur usually not strongly swollen"

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

… John F. Carr, 20 June, 2011 - 7:26am

viable hypothesis

i'll pursue this line of inquiry...

… v belov, 19 June, 2011 - 7:11pm