Leptopiini – Leptopius sp. aff. colossus – Wattle Pig

Order Coleoptera; Family Curculionidae (Weevils); Subfamily Entiminae; Tribe Leptopiini; A provisional scientific name: Leptopius sp. aff. colossus; Note: this specimen resembles Leptopius colossus, and might actually be that species, but at the same time it differs too much to be with any certainty identified as such by anyone but a weevil specialist - Common name: Wattle Pig; Alternative common name: Root Weevil – Distribution in Australia: Western Australia – Photographed: in August, on Banks Rock in Great Western Woodlands, west of Norseman.