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Deer Broad-nosed Weevil

Polydrusus cervinus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 249, February 184, March 289, April 454, May 655, June 714, July 764, August 657, September 482, October 360, November 197, December 154.
United States5,493
Alaska5,160
Canada704
Germany367
Quebec282
Nova Scotia184
United Kingdom160
France160
England142
Netherlands135

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
GenusPolydrusus

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