E. azureus in the Saint Petersburg Zoological Museum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Infraorder:
Cucujiformia
Family:
Curculionidae
Subfamily:
Entiminae
Genus:
Eupholus
Eupholus is a genus of beetle in the family Curculionidae. The genus includes some of the most colourful of the weevils. The colour may serve as a warning to predators that they are distasteful. Most species feed upon yam leaves, some of which are toxic to other animals. The species occur in New Guinea and adjacent islands. This genus was described by French entomologist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval in 1835.
Two photographs (taken at the Essig Museum of Entomology, U.C. Berkeley) of the same Eupholus weevil exhibit the unique expression of structural color.Eupholus bennetti
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