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Trigonopterus oblongus

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170: 159: 37: 214:. The weevils are just 4 millimetres (0.16 in) long and can fold their legs below their body. The biological screw joint is just 0.5 millimetres (0.020 in) in size. This discovery was made by Alexander Riedel of the 414: 169: 215: 243: 409: 219: 404: 36: 148: 347: 399: 248:
Taxonomic and faunistic overviews on the insect species living in Papua and West-Papua (Indonesian New Guinea)
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van de Kamp, Thomas; Vagovic, Patrik; Baumbach, Tilo; Riedel, Alexander (2011).
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Trigonopterus
Binomial name
Pascoe


genus
metanepisternite
elytron
metaventrite
weevil
Papua
biological screw joint
State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology


"The True Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea, Curculionidae) of Papua Indonesia"
"A Biological Screw in a Beetle's Leg"
Science
doi
10.1126/science.1204245
PMID

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