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Saturday 26 March 2016

Acorn weevil - Curculio glandium (Marsham, 1802) - Cyprus

Family: Curculionidae
Curculio glandium is a species of weevil known as the acorn weevil. Its most striking feature is its elongated snout, known as a 'rostrum', which is longer in females than males. Adults have a brownish and patterned body. The larvae are short, and cylindrical in shape, and move by means of ridges on the underside of the body. It reaches a length of 4 to 8 mm.
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Photos Kato drys 26/3/2016 by George Konstantinou






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