Unidentified Weevil from Peru

blue mystery bug from peru
February 27, 2010
My son spotted this bug while we were out on a nature walk. It is a bright blue. While I’ve spent several hours searching your site for something similar, all I’ve found is the masked hunter (but I doubt it is this because there was absolutely nothing this color anywhere near where we were… no blue carpet :). It is similar in color to the blue-green citrus weevil, but it’s body doesn’t look like it as it’s rather bumpy. Just thought it’d be fun to identify it, though I didn’t imagine it would be this hard… 🙂
He was about 2cm in length and was crossing a dirt road near a farm of coconut trees. We live in ceja de selva (which is on the eastern slopes of the Andes, above true rainforest level).
my images are here:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3EJtySjkSuU/S4msrS0yY1I/AAAAAAAAG1c/N1LLzoMcECE/s400/IMG_0799-1.JPG
and here:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3EJtySjkSuU/S4ms0DcygNI/AAAAAAAAG1g/vyY9CHNqQCk/s400/IMG_0802-1.JPG
amy in peru
tarapoto, peru

Hi Amy,
This is a Weevil.  Alas, we haven’t the time to research the species at the moment, but perhaps one of our readers will be able to identify the species.

thank you for getting back to me!  I have a request for a name in case it hasn’t been officially recognized…
my kids would like to call it the ‘turquoise blue tuttle beetle’… of course now that we know that it’s a weevil…
maybe it should be the ‘not-at-all-evil-blue-tuttle-weevil’ 🙂
anyway, thanks again 🙂
amy in peru

Hi again Amy,
You should post a comment to this posting to be informed automatically in the future of an identification.