Metopum melanocephalum (a species of leaf-rolling weevil)
Basis for Tasmanian occurrence
Semmens, T.D., McQuillan, P.B. & Hayhurst, G. (1992). Catalogue of the Insects of Tasmania. Government of Tasmania: Department of Primary Industry, 104 pp. (as Auletobius melanocephalus)
TMAG collections
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Curculionoidea
Family: Attelabidae
Subfamily: Rhynchitinae
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 2.0
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Ecology
(ecology not yet documented)
