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The common cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha), also colloquially known as the Maybug, [1] [a] Maybeetle, [3] or doodlebug, [4] is a species of scarab beetle belonging to the genus Melolontha. It is native to Europe, and it is one of several closely-related and morphologically similar species of Melolontha called cockchafers, alongside ...
The red-headed cockchafer or red-headed pasture cockchafer (Adoryphorus couloni [1] [2] or Adoryphorus coulonii [3] [4]) is a species of Australian scarab beetle in the genus Adoryphorus. It is a pasture pest in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania. [ 1 ]
Linnaeus called the European cockchafer Scarabaeus melolontha. Étienne Louis Geoffroy used Melolontha as a genus name (1762), but his book has been suppressed by the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, and the authority for the name is the later (1775) publication by Johan Christian Fabricius.
This research compared the genetic makeup of M. hippocastani to a different cockchafer beetle, the Melolontha melolontha. They demonstrated that both M. hippocastani and M. melolontha show considerable genetic diversity within subpopulations within sampling sites with minor effects of past bottlenecks possibly masked by current population sizes ...
Holotrichia is a genus of beetle in the family Scarabaeidae, which are well known as "chafer beetles" or "white-grubs" for their white larvae that are found under the soil where they feed on the roots of plants.
Common names for this genus and many other related genera in the subfamily Melolonthinae are May beetles, June bugs, and July beetles. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They range in size from 12 to 35 mm (0.47 to 1.38 in) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and are blackish or reddish-brown in colour, without prominent markings, and often rather hairy ventrally.
Cockchafer is a common name for several species of plant eating scarab beetles regarded as agricultural pests. It is most commonly used for several European species of the genus Melolontha: The common cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) The forest cockchafer (Melolontha hippocastani) Other species referred to as cockchafers include:
Cetonia aurata, called the rose chafer or the green rose chafer, is a beetle, 20 millimetres (3 ⁄ 4 in) long, that has a metallic structurally coloured green and a distinct V-shaped scutellum. The scutellum is the small V-shaped area between the wing cases; it may show several small, irregular, white lines and marks.