This #weevil (#Curculionidae) appeared in the #SLAM #Malaise trip this past week and was so curled up I thought it was a tumbling flower #beetle (#Mordellidae). I know know why the subfamily is called #Cryptorhynchinae ... The rostrum was completely concealed, along with half the eye.

How do most people identify weevils? Pure gestalt? From images in the Zimmerman volumes, it most resembled Amydanus, now synonymised with Ampagia.

See #inaturalist for a close match:

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/102154381