Fin-faced Weevil Fins in profile | Riverina Weevil Dorsal | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | ||||
Family: | True Weevil (Curculionoidea: Curculionidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Fin-faced Weevil (Acantholophus planicollis) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Fins in profile🔎 | ||||
Thank you Mark Hura for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere ~12mm long. Notice the butterfly shaped shield on it's face, creating fins that cover the eyes. The only specimen we found was dead unfortunately. Mark said "Your specimen closely matches Waterhouse's (1854) description. He mentions features such as the tubercles and granules as well as the colouring being somewhat variable, but the diagnostic features of your specimen fits with his description." | |||||
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