![]() | Horned Weevil | Eucalypt Weevil Adults | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||
Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | |||||||||||||
Family: | True Weevil (Curculionoidea: Curculionidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
Species: | Eucalypt Weevil (Gonipterus sp)This Photo: | Lava | General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere The larva create a faecal shield to help protect from predators. They skeletonise gum leaves.
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