Wattle Pig: S5, Adult, ventral

Class:

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

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

True Weevil (Curculionoidea:Curculionidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Wattle Pig (Leptopius duponti)

This Photo:

🔍S5, Adult, ventral🔎

Other name:

Broad-back Weevil

Thank you Boris Büche for helping with the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
We've measured these at 21mm in Lobethal, and 27mm at Ellura; this is by far the biggest weevil we've ever found.
The size of the tubercles/horns on body of these seems to be highly variable, but the pattern of where they are on the body seems consistent.

This species is

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

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