 The
weevil family has more species in it than any other group
of organisms: about 50,000 species. - About 1,500 species are known in New Zealand, and
2 of them represent the longest species and the
smallest species known in the world!
- The longest species is the giraffe
weevil, Lasiorhynchus barbicornis,
and it is up to 80 mm long.
- The smallest species is only 0.7-0.8 mm long! Myrtonymus
zelandicus is a blind species
living around the finer roots of all
native
species of Myrtaceae
such as pöhutukawa, känuka, and mänuka,
in the top 40 cm of the soil.
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