White Pebble Weevil
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White Pebble Weevil
Defensive Posture
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | ||||
| Family: | True Weevil (Curculionoidea: Curculionidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | White Pebble Weevil (Elaeagna squamibunda) | ||||
| This Photo: | Face | ||||
Thank you Boris Büche for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line: Between ~5 to ~7mm long. When feeling threatened they tuck their rostrum well into their chest & curl up. Regardless their legs are large for their body size. Their body reminds us of the surface of a golf ball. We believe the black mark on this one (on it's side in the profile shot) is where the scales have been "worn"/scraped off, showing the actual under colour (dermis?) is black. As such, black marks like this aren't diagnostic, but damage. We were fairly confident of our genus id, but thought the colours were a bit different to this species. Boris said "In Lea (1913), considerable variability in scale colour described for the species." Similar Species: Variable Hidden-snout Weevil (Decilaus cf variegatus) | |||||
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