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Kingdom:   Animalia
Phylum:     Arthropoda
Class:        Insecta
Order:       Coleoptera
Suborder:   Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily:       Curculionoidea
Family:      Anthribidae
Common name: Fungus weevils

Anthribidae is a family of beetles also known as fungus weevils. The antennae are not elbowed. They have a head with a broad flat beak, antennae that are not elbowed. Body is robust and is usually brownish and very often mottled with patches of white, grey, brown or straw-coloured hairs.
The adults are found mostly on the larval food plants such as polypore fungi or decaying plant matter and under the bark of dead/dying trees. Larvae feed on vegetable material. 

The photo below is of weevil in the Genus Cacephatus


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