Platyrhinus resinosus beetle seen at #RSPBMiddletonLakes 21/03/26 @colsocbi.bsky.social #Beetle #Anthribidae #Coleoptera

Face shot of a fungus weevil.

This being striking a pose, is the fungus weevil or anthribidae. I love that flipping face!!!

#nature #insect #weevil #fungus #Anthribidae

Leaving the beautiful #CostaRica 🇨🇷 after a few wonderful weeks! I deeply appreciate the hospitality of local researchers at Universidad de Costa Rica (in San José and Guanacaste 🥰), and the support given by @kunhm.bsky.social to make this trip possible! More soon! #Anthribidae #FranzLab #Collections

New species for me and the site, Platyrhinus resinosus, the Cramp-Ball Fungus Weevil, seen at #RSPBMiddletonLakes 18/06/25 @coleopsoc.bsky.social @wild-dave.bsky.social @colsocbi.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social #beetle #Anthribidae

#LiteratureNotice Trýzna et al. Two #NewSpecies of Diastatotropis Lacordaire from protected areas in Madagascar ( #Coleoptera: #Anthribidae) doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Beetle #Beetles #FungusWeevils

Huge congratulations to Poliana Vilhena and Jose Mermudes for this paper 😍. There's only one specimen of Dasyrhopala Jordan in #ASUCOB (now on loan at KU 🩵) and it will finally have a name! #Anthribidae

Platyrhinus resinosus, Nottinghamshire woodland. Pretty much a certainty around here if there’s a nice patch of Daldinia. #Coleoptera #Anthribidae

Graphical abstract of: Unravelling the evolution of mycetophagy and phytophagy in fungus weevils (Curculionoidea: Anthribidae) - Phylogenomic insights into Anthribinae paraphyly and tribal non-monophyly

New research in #RESSystematicEnt unravels the evolution of mycetophagy & phytophagy in #FungusWeevils (#Curculionoidea: #Anthribidae) 🍄

Read the article🔽
doi.org/10.1111/syen.12674

@coleopterasam.bsky.social @gkergoat.bsky.social @lepidochrysops.bsky.social @wiley.com

Family Anthribidae. (a) Euparius tigris Gyllenhal (photo credit: JRM); (b) Choragus Kirby sp. (photo credit: Katja Schultz); (c) Platyrhinus resinosus (Scopoli) (photo credit: Mark Gurney); (d) Anthribus nebulosus Forster (photo credit: Mark Gurney); (e) Xenocerus Schoenherr sp. (photo credit: Dash Huang); (f) Xylinada annulipes Jordan (photo credit: Dash Huang); (g) Bruchela rufipes (Olivier) (photo credit: Mark Gurney); and (h) Exechesops leucopis (Jordan) (photo credit: Mok Youn Fai). All photos are used with permission.

#LiteratureNotice McKenna et al. Unravelling the evolution of mycetophagy and phytophagy in fungus weevils ( #Curculionoidea: #Anthribidae): Phylogenomic insights into Anthribinae paraphyly and tribal non-monophyly doi.org/10.1111/syen... #Beetle #Beetles #Weevils #Phylogenetics

side-front-top view of a slightly colorful little beetle. Its surface is dark grey but it is almost completely covered in a pattern of black, white and orange scales which are quite long and thin so they appear like short hair. Its head is slightly elongated downwards and mostly covered in white scale-hairs and has quite big black compound eyes. It sits on green flowers of grass and the background is the blue sky with blurry green branches.

It's #weevilwedneday again :)
So here is a pretty little fungus weevil: Dissoleucas niveirostris
Sitting on some grass near deadwood in a mixed (mainly beech) forest. It sat still enough for me to combine two pictures handheld for extra DOF
Wetzlar May 2023
#coleoptera #anthribidae #macrophotography

Off to a good start at KU! Many more anthribids to come! 🥰 #Anthribidae #KUNHM

A pill-shaped weevil with a short, broad snout and an evenly arched back sits on some rotting wood. It's body is covered by a layer of small thick hairs that for a patchwork of natural tones, mimicking fungus or a lichen.

A pill-shaped weevil with a short, broad snout and an evenly arched back sits on some rotting wood. It's body is covered by a layer of small thick hairs that for a patchwork of natural tones, mimicking fungus or a lichen.

On a mild New Year's Eve, we traveled to the North Carolina sandhills to hunt for critters. Had to pull bark, but we found them!

#Beetles were most abundant, like this puppy dog of a fungus #weevil. Very cute 🥰

#Anthribidae: #Euparius
#Invertfest

One last Saturday at #ASUCOB 🥲. Making sure all the anthribids I checked are organized and back in the collection 🥰. #Anthribidae #ASUBiocollections

Not sure if I've posted this gorgeous specimen before, but here it is 😅. Gymnognathus phanerus Jordan (currently on loan at ASU, will soon be back in KUNHM-SEMC 😄). #WeevilWednesday #Anthribidae #Collections

Screenshot of the Ecdysis Symbiota portal, designed for the digitization of entomological collections.

During my PhD at the #ASUBiocollections, I digitized over 3,000 #Anthribidae specimens 🥰. This was possible with the wonderful #Symbiota portal ecdysis.org, now updated with new tools! Let us know if you want to join to #digitize your collections 🥰.

Hi everyone! It's great to see the entomological community again 🥰. I'm Samanta, and I love #Anthribidae, #collections, and #digitizing every specimen I see 😅. You can check my ORCID and ecdysis.org if you want to see more of them 💚.

compact black fungus weevil with white spots on a white background

compact black fungus weevil with white spots on a white background

Bluesky, meet starry night!

fungus #weevil #Anthribidae
Soltis Center, Costa Rica (August)

Don't miss #TaxonWorks Together next week (May 7-9)! Lots of interesting talks and panels are scheduled. I'll be presenting a little bit about a new resource for #Anthribidae generated with #TaxonWorks and #TaxonPages. Registration is open! ➡️ together.taxonworks.org

LiteratureNotice Zhang et al. Pest characteristics of Trigonorhinus sp. (#Coleoptera: #Anthribidae) and the developmental process of its galls in Caragana liouana Zhao Y. Chang and Yakovlev. doi.org/10.4039/tce.... #Beetle #Beetles #FungusWeevils #PestManagement

Should I start posting gorgeous #weevils again? 🤭 #Anthribidae #Coleoptera

New #Anthribidae publication! This book chapter, included in the third volume of the book Biodiversity of Guatemala, presents an updated checklist with new country records and a key to genera.
🟢Full book: tinyurl.com/volumen3BG
🟢High resolution file: tinyurl.com/BGanthribidae