New Zealand’s giraffe weevil is not a weevil at all, but a member of another family of beetles known as Brentidae. It is the longest native beetle, at 8.5 centimetres. Half the male’s length is its snout, which has a pair of antennae near the tip. Females have their antennae midway.
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Department of Conservation
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