Melolontha

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Kingdom Animalia Family Scarabaeidae Scientific name Melolontha Higher classification Melolonthinae		Order Coleoptera Subfamily Melolonthinae Phylum Arthropoda Rank Genus

Similar Beetle, Insect, Melolonthinae, Amphimallon solstitiale, Scarabs

Melolontha melolontha cockchafer grub found in compost

Melolontha is a genus of beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. The European cockchafers belong to this genus.

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.

The following is a list of species within the genus Melolontha:

Melolontha aceris Faldermann, 1835

Melolontha afflicta Ballion, 1870

Melolontha albida Frivaldszky, 1835

Melolontha anita Reitter, 1902

Melolontha argus Burmeister 1855

Melolontha bifurcata (Brenske, 1896)

Melolontha chinensis (Guerin, 1838)

Melolontha ciliciensis Petrovitz

Melolontha flabellata Sharp, 1876

Melolontha frater Arrow, 1913 – Indonesia

Melolontha fuscotestacea Kraatz, 1887

Melolontha guttigera Sharp, 1876

Melolontha hippocastani Fabricius, 1801 – European forest cockchafer

Melolontha incana Motschulsky, 1853

Melolontha insulana Burmeister, 1939

Melolontha japonica Burmeister, 1855

Melolontha kraatzi Reitter 1906

Melolontha melolontha (Linnaeus, 1758) – common European cockchafer

Melolontha papposa Illiger, 1803

Melolontha pectoralis Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1812 – European large cockchafer

Melolontha rubiginosa

Melolontha rufocrassa Fairmaire, 1889

Melolontha satsumaenis Niijima & Kinoshita

Melolontha virescens (Brenske, 1896)

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