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Alex Wild<p>A tumbling flower beetle, Mordella sp., feeds from an aster at UT Austin's Stengl Lost Pines Field Station. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Beetles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Beetles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Mordellidae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mordellidae</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Coleoptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coleoptera</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollinators</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Insects</span></a></p>
Alex Wild<p>Are polka dots back in? I'm now too old to know these things.</p><p>Anywhere, here's a very stylish or not tumbling flower beetle, Hoshihananomia dumbrelli, photographed in Victoria, Australia.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Mordellidae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mordellidae</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Beetles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Beetles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Insects</span></a></p>
Alex Wild<p>Looking good in polka dots! Hoshihananomia dumbrelli, the white spotted black pintail beetle. Yarra Ranges National Park, Australia.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Coleoptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coleoptera</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Beetles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Beetles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Mordellidae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mordellidae</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Insects</span></a></p>
Donald Hobern<p>This <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/weevil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weevil</span></a> (<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Curculionidae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Curculionidae</span></a>) appeared in the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SLAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SLAM</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Malaise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Malaise</span></a> trip this past week and was so curled up I thought it was a tumbling flower <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/beetle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beetle</span></a> (<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Mordellidae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mordellidae</span></a>). I know know why the subfamily is called <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Cryptorhynchinae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cryptorhynchinae</span></a> ... The rostrum was completely concealed, along with half the eye.</p><p>How do most people identify weevils? Pure gestalt? From images in the Zimmerman volumes, it most resembled Amydanus, now synonymised with Ampagia.</p><p>See <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/inaturalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inaturalist</span></a> for a close match: </p><p><a href="https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/102154381" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inaturalist.ala.org.au/observa</span><span class="invisible">tions/102154381</span></a></p>