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Family Apionidae - Straight-snouted Weevils
- This family very close to the true weevil family CURCULIONIDAE.
Species in this family are small and often black in colour. They have round
abdomen and narrow rostrum, like the true weevil. Their antenna are not
elbowed which distinguishes them from true weevil.
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- Tiny Black Weevil
- Myrmacicelus sp., body length 4mm
- It is not difficult to found this little shiny black weevil on Black
Wattle leaf in Alexandra Hill and Karawatha Forest during mid-summer.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 680.
- 2. Australian Weevils - Zimmerman, E.C., CSIRO PUBLISHING, 1991, Plate
301.
[ Up ] [ BELIDAE ] [ ATTELABIDAE ] [ APIONIDAE ] [ CURCULIONIDAE ] [ Unknown Weevils ]
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