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Palm Weevil

Cercidocerus sp

Photo by Dan Doucette
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

large weevil, huge antennae, possibly Cercidocerus indicator

Habitat:

montane rainforest, 1200m

Notes:

Gunung Halimun national park.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (10)

Thanks Wild Things and bayucca for the ID. It certainly looks very close to Cercidocerus indicator to me.
Curculionoidea, Dryophthoridae, some kind of a Palm Weevil. My closest hint I found would be Cercidocerus indicator or similar, maybe the same genus? But the markings are slightly different for really being Cercidocerus indicator, at least in my eyes... http://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id176437/ http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id895202/ http://www.meloidae.com/en/pictures/29175/ http://www.meloidae.com/en/pictures/28782/ http://www.nodai.ac.jp/agri/original/konken/shigen/Member/kojima/photo/Cercidocerus.jpg http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/193276006
Thanks shekainah, Mark, kel, Sigg and Rob. Mark, I'm not sure if it's in that family but it looks like I've spotted some others that probably are Brentidae.
beautiful beetle, daniel. It has shoes on the antenna.
Just thinkin' fiction , this antennae can create a tremendous shock wave when she claps them. Stan lee should see this. :)

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