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- Adults of this subfamily are characterized by having a relatively short and
stout rostrum, boarder at the tip. They are from moderate to large size. The larvae
usually live in soil and feed on root.
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 - Broad-nosed Weevil - body length 20mm
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- Early summer females lay eggs on leaves. The grubs hatch and crawl
down the trunk to the roots, where they commence to feed. When fully grown the
grubs and pupate during late winter in soil. Adults come out during early
summer. They crawl up the tree and feed on young leaves. They find mates and
start a new cycle.
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- Wattle Pig Beetle
 - Leptopius maleficus or Leptopius nodicollis, body length female 20mm, male 15mm
- All
Leptopius are called Wattle Pigs. We easily found this weevil feeding on different species of Acacia leaf
during summer season. More information and pictures please click on here.
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- Two Fruit-tree Root Weevils
 - Leptopius robustus, body length 10mm
- Reference:
- 1. Australian
Weevils - Zimmerman, E.C., CSIRO PUBLISHING, 1991, Plate 197.
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- Broad-nosed Weevil
- Leptopius sp., body length 10mm
- Above pictures was taken in Karawatha Forest in mid summer.
- 1. Australian
Weevils - Zimmerman, E.C., CSIRO PUBLISHING, 1991, Plate 197.
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- Swamp Banksia Weevil
 
- ? Asceprnodes sp., body length 10mm, male and female
- We found this mating couple on a Swamp Banksia leaf in Alexandra Hill during mid
summer. More pictures and information please click on here.
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- Short Rostrum Weevil
 - Asceparnodes duplicatus, body length 8mm
- Picture taken in Karawatha Forest during
early summer.
- 1. Australian
Weevils - Zimmerman, E.C., CSIRO PUBLISHING, 1991, Plate 180.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 682.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p241.
- 3. Beetles
of Australia - Trevor J Hawkeswood, Angus & Robertson Publishers,
1987, p173.
- 4. Australian Insects, An Introductory Handbook - McKeown, K.C., Royal Zoological Society., Sydney,
1945, p158.
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