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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » May Beetles and Junebugs (Melolonthinae) » Rhizotrogini » May Beetles (Phyllophaga) » Subgenus Phyllophaga (Phyllophaga Subgenus Phyllophaga) » Phyllophaga crenulata

Species Phyllophaga crenulata

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Scarabaeoidea

Family Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)

Subfamily Melolonthinae (May Beetles and Junebugs)

Tribe Rhizotrogini

Genus Phyllophaga (May Beetles)

No Taxon (Subgenus Phyllophaga)

Species crenulata (Phyllophaga crenulata)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Phyllophaga crenulata (Froelich)

Orig. Comb: Melolontha crenulata Froelich 1792

Size

14.8 to 22.2 mm (1)

Identification

Typically quite hairy. Size, color (light brown to dark brown), and degree of vestiture variable. Antennae 10-segmented.

Det. E. G. Riley, 2010

Range

e US (e.TX-FL-MA-SD) - Map (1)(2), common

Season

Mar-Aug (one of the earliest spp. to emerge in FL) (1)

Food

Eat leaves of various native and introduced deciduous trees and shrubs. Larvae sometimes pests of sod, field crops, and coniferous nurseries.(3)

Remarks

Third described US sp. of Phyllophaga (1)

See Also

Superficially similar to six other hirsute spp. in FL (1)

Works Cited

1.	The scarab beetles of Florida, Part II, The May or June beetles (Genus Phyllophaga). Woodruff and Beck. 1989. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Arthropods of Florida and neighboring Land Areas. vol. 13. 226 pp.

2.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

3.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

Contributed by MJ Paulsen on 15 August, 2008 - 11:55am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, Marci Hess
Last updated 26 March, 2024 - 11:00am

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