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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 » Trichapiina » Kissingeria » Kissingeria capitone
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Apioninae, dorsal - Kissingeria capitone - female
Copyright © 2013 MJ Hatfield

Apioninae, dorsal - Kissingeria capitone - Female
Red Oak Prairie, Allamakee County, Iowa, USA
August 24, 2012
Size: 1.5 mm
Size: 1.5 or 2.8 with rostrum.
Which is the proper way to measure and should we state that the measurement includes the snout?
Sweep net

Kissingeria capitone Kissinger
Determination by LR Anchor

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Apioninae, dorsal - Kissingeria capitone - female Apioninae, lateral - Kissingeria capitone Apioninae, head - Kissingeria capitone
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 30 March, 2013 - 11:07pm
Last updated 23 November, 2020 - 7:06am

Moved
Moved from Kissingeria.
… MJ Hatfield, 25 March, 2020 - 8:21am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Trichapion tenuirostrum.
… v belov, 9 January, 2015 - 10:04am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Pear-shaped Weevils.
… v belov, 1 January, 2015 - 9:37pm login or register to post comments

 
I don't think this is
T. tenuirostrum
as the first anntenal segment is pale (as per G. Salsbury here
… MJ Hatfield, 9 January, 2015 - 7:37am login or register to post comments

very nice; they are lovely, lovely critters
hope someone get busy with them one day [we must be patient, though]
no nearctic experts in sight at this point...
weevil size is indeed measured sans rostrum --that was a right thing to ask!

Moved from Snout and Bark Beetles.
… v belov, 1 April, 2013 - 8:11am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks as to measurement.
I may have to go back and re-post on some of them.
… MJ Hatfield, 2 January, 2015 - 6:49am login or register to post comments

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