ID confirmation - weevil?

Request help to identify insects or other creatures. Please post the location that the insect you want to identify came from, this will help greatly in species determination.
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Re: ID confirmation - weevil?

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freds.pictures wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2024 12:26 pm Looking for a little help here. I found this in Central Park, but if i am right thinking it's a weevil of some sort, then shouldn't this little fella be a few thousand miles south of me?...
It's a beetle of the subfamily Bruchinae -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_weevil

https://bugguide.net/node/view/13857

Commonly called "bean weevils", but are actually part of the family Chrysomelidae (leaf beetles), rather than the true weevils (family Curculionidae).
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