Posted by Xespok on 14-09-2005 18:46
#1
I am not sure if it is a larva of an Artrhopod, or maybe some kinde of worm or slug. I have definitely no idea what this could be.
Posted by Paul Beuk on 14-09-2005 21:18
#2
I had something similar (though not identical) and I think that developed into a curculionid.
Edited by Paul Beuk on 14-09-2005 21:18
Posted by Juergen Peters on 15-09-2005 00:26
#3
Hello!
Xespok wrote:
I am not sure if it is a larva of an Artrhopod, or maybe some kinde of worm or slug. I have definitely no idea what this could be.
Can you tell the host plant? I am no coleopterology expert, but that animal looks exactly like a larva of the weevil
Stereonychus fraxini (Curculionidae, as Paul already wrote) which is very abundant here in Germany on ash (
Fraxinus excelsior). That does not exclude similar looking larvae of other Curculionidae, anyway...
Posted by Xespok on 15-09-2005 02:37
#4
Unfortunately I can not. Remeber this image is from Japan and I do not know the local flora, which is vastly more diverse that the one in Central Europe. The only thing I remember is that it was not a tree, it was a much smaller plant.
Xespok
Edited by Xespok on 15-09-2005 17:41