#Sesbania clown weevil

[plantpirating]

[zephyrenn]

Day 4 of the 30 Days of Weevils challenge spotlights the Beautiful Clown Weevil (Eudiagogus pulcher)!

This aptly-named weevil - with lovely black spots and peachy iridescence - is native to North America. Members of their genus, Eudiagogus, are also called sesbania clown weevils because they feed on Sesbania pea plants.

Reference image found here!

[typhlonectes]

Sesbania clown weevil, Eudiagogus pulcher, feeding on Rattlebox, Sesbania drummondii, WG Jones state forest, Conroe, Texas, Montgomery county, 11/16/19

photograph by Paxon Kale

[astronomy-to-zoology]

Eudiagogus pulcher

...a species of Sesbania Clown Weevil (Eudiagogus spp.), a group of Broad-nosed Weevil (Entiminae). E. pulcher occurs from southern North America and Mexico south to Central America. Adult E. pulcher are typically seen in wetland margins and are known to feed on the foliage of rattlebox (Sesbania spp.). Their larvae will feed on rattlebox as well but instead of foliage will feed on the root nodules of rattlebox.

Classification

Animalia-Arthropoda-Insecta-Coleoptera-Polyphaga-Curculionoidea-Curculionidae-Entiminae-Eudiagogini-Eudiagogus-E. pulcher

Image: ©Tracy Palmer Villalobos

[plantpirating]

Weevil 7 came out...unfortunately...I'm so sorry...

Just... er, yep, sorry about that horn-headed weevil (Cerocranus extremus) You... You did not deserve that.

@30daysofweevils apologies, the other ones looked great

[plantpirating]

Platyaspistes venustus

Not as precise as I'd like, but...