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Banded Pine Weevil

Pissodes pini

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) bottin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 151, February 112, March 175, April 275, May 397, June 433, July 463, August 398, September 292, October 218, November 119, December 93.
United States3,126
Alaska3,126
Russia33
Finland14
Omsk Oblast10
Germany8
Poland8
France6
Denmark4
Bayern3

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
GenusPine Weevils · Pissodes

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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