Hello Yoshiko, I don't know the exact species, but it is a weevil. Maybe a black vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus)?
Best, Pat Pat Nowacki (they/them/theirs) - why this matters<https://pronouns.org/> Print Services Manager Center for Research Libraries 6050 S. Kenwood Ave. • Chicago, IL 60637 • USA 773.955.4545 [cid:[email protected]] The Center for Research Libraries<https://www.crl.edu/> is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries collectively building, stewarding, and sharing a wealth of resource materials from all world regions to support inspired research and teaching. CRL's deep and diverse collections<https://www.crl.edu/collections> are shaped by specialists at major U.S. and Canadian research universities, who work together to identify and preserve collections and content, to ensure its long-term integrity and accessibility to researchers worldwide. ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Y. Kondo <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2025 11:04 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [PestList] Help ID Hi pest friends, I need help identifying this bug. about 3mm body I've found it for the first time. Is it a kind of weevil? I found it in a trap in the library in Florence, Italy. Thank you always for your kind help! Ciao Yoshiko Yoshiko Kondo BOOK PAPER & PHOTOGRAPH CONSERVATION Studio: c/o Vecchio Conventino Via Giano della Bella 20 50124 Firenze Italy Instagram: @karta.conventino -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] View this message at https://groups.google.com/a/googlegroups.com/d/msg/pestlist/topic-id/message-id --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MuseumPests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CADCubsDuamTfKorKT9HTWmd7e7-YcPVC8_CvmGSB_fZKdKSfng%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CADCubsDuamTfKorKT9HTWmd7e7-YcPVC8_CvmGSB_fZKdKSfng%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] View this message at https://groups.google.com/a/googlegroups.com/d/msg/pestlist/topic-id/message-id --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MuseumPests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CH2PR20MB36105D2D1A8E7B5E927670C3DBE8A%40CH2PR20MB3610.namprd20.prod.outlook.com.
