Pumped Up Snout Beetle

September 13th, 2010 - 8:48 AM | Filed under Featured Photos | 1 Comment

January 26, 2010 | Caraça Natural Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil

This one looks like it has been doing push-ups on that leaf. Check out those foreleg femurs!

Subjects: Beetles, Insects, and Snout Beetles.
Places: Brazil, Caraça Natural Park, Minas Gerais, and South America.
Life Stages: Adult.
Taxa: Class Insecta, Order Coleoptera, and Superfamily Curculionoidea.
Colors: Black and Red.

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One Response to “Pumped Up Snout Beetle”

  1. An Inordinate Fondness #8 « Arthropoda says:
    September 20, 2010 at 8:38 PM

    [...] at Nature Closeups has three excellent beetle photos; a Fuzzy Jewel Beetle, a Red Striped Snout Beetle, and an Orange Banded Snout Beetle. The fuzzy jewel beetle is especially bizarre and could easily [...]

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