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Yellow Poplar Weevil

Odontopus calceatus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) derhennen, some rights reserved (CC BY)

28 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Virginia.January 88, February 94, March 103, April 175, May 219, June 742, July 88, August 85, September 103, October 95, November 79, December 81.
United States4,253
Virginia2,037
Maryland1,043
North Carolina253
Ohio242
Pennsylvania223
West Virginia173
Tennessee146
District of Columbia120
Kentucky101

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderBeetles · Coleoptera
FamilyTrue Weevils · Curculionidae
GenusOdontopus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Yellow Poplar Weevil with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.