Eucalypt Weevil: Lava

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.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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