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Ground Weevil Barynotus obscurus


Appropriately for its vernacular name, this was found on the ground.

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Ground Weevil Barynotus obscurus, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows (Norfolk, UK), 18th July 2020


This was in my moth trap. It was before I'd started looking at beetles seriously and my initial attempts to identify it (probably from general insect books that only include a few species) came up with a tentative Clay-coloured Weevil Otiorhynchus singularis. On reviewing my old records over a decade later it's immediately clear that it isn't that, but I can't see any reason why it can't be identified as Barynotus obsucurus.

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Ground Weevil Barynotus obscurus, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 26th June 2015