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Family Brentidae - Straight-snouted Weevils
- This page contains information and pictures about Straight-snouted Weevils
in family Brentidae that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Weevils in family Brentidae have elongated body. They have straight and
short antennae.
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We found two species both are in subfamily Apioninae. Species in this subfamily
Apioninae are small in size and often black in colour. They have round
abdomen and narrow rostrum, like the true weevil. Their antenna are not
elbowed which distinguishes them from true weevil.
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- This family very close to the true weevil family CURCULIONIDAE.
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- Tiny Black Weevil
- Myrmacicelus sp., Apioninae, body length 4mm
- It is not difficult to found this little shiny black weevil on Black
Wattle leaf in Alexandra Hill and Karawatha Forest during mid-summer. We
have more infromation and pictures in this page.
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- Straight-snouted Weevil
- ? Apion sp., Apioninae, body length 4mm
- Pictures taken on Mar 2009 in Anstead Forest on Queensland Silver Wattle Acacia
podalyriifolia. There were a few of them on the plant.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 680.
- 2. Australian Weevils - Zimmerman, E.C., CSIRO PUBLISHING, 1991, Plate
301.
- 3.
Northern
Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
- 4. A
Guide to the Beetles of Australia - George Hangay and Paul Zborowski,
CSIRO PUBLISHING April 2010, p213.
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