Barrel Weevil:

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

True Weevil (Curculionoidea:Curculionidae)

Species:

Barrel Weevil (Titinia sp)

This Photo:

Thank you Kimberi Pullen for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
These are only ~4.5mm long. We thought they were Perperus sp, but seemed a bit small for most Perperus sp.
They are currently (04/2026) infesting our Senna bushes.

This species is

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

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