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Can anyone help me identify this weevil? I need to find some more dried ones. It's for a Goldsmith friend who is repairing a Victorian necklace which includes them, but some have fallen off.
Can you help identify this weevil?
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Is it a weevil or maybe a Buprestidae beetle, they were popular in vicorian jewellery?
Looks a fair bit like a frog beetle to me: Google Image Result for http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5056/5502797323_f9c6f491e6.jpg
Looks a fair bit like a frog beetle to me: Google Image Result for http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5056/5502797323_f9c6f491e6.jpg
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Mos def not a buprestid, nor a frog beetle. Toby I expected better of you my good man! Pretty sure that's a weevil, and found some images of them online but only as metallic green weevil, not with a scientific name. Bummer! The hunt goes on!
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Surely someone on here must know?
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Lamprocyphus augustus??
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Aaaahahahah you beautiful man! Thank you!!
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