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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Shining Leaf Chafers (Rutelinae) » Anomalini » Anomala » Anomala binotata

Species Anomala binotata

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Black and brown beetle sp? - Anomala binotata

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 Rutelinae (Shining Leaf Chafers)

Tribe Anomalini

Genus Anomala

Species binotata (Anomala binotata)

Other Common Names

Shining leaf chafer

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Anomala binotata (Gyllenhal)

Orig. Comb: Melolontha binotata Gyllenhal, 1817

Numbers

48 spp. n. of Mex. in this genus (1)

Size

10-11 mm

Range

e. US to CO-NM (NM-VA-NY-CO) / Mex. - Map (2)(3), many e. TX records

Season

mostly: Mar-May (3)

Life Cycle

The adults are injurious to fruit-producing plants and the grubs are minor pests of corn, wheat and oats. The winter is passed as an adult. Eggs are laid in the spring and soon hatch, producing larvae whose average time of development was found to be 83 days. The pupal stage lasts on an average 16 days. The adults transform in the fall and remain in their pupal cells until the following spring, thus completing a one-year life cycle. (Hayes 1918)

Print References

Hayes, W.P. 1918. Studies on the life history of two Kansas Scarabaeidae (Coleop.). J. Econ. Entomol 11: 136–144. Full Text

Internet References

EoL

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas. Edward G. Riley & Charles S. Wolfe. 2003. Southwestern Entomologist, Supplement. 37 pp.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 2 April, 2007 - 11:00am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn
Last updated 16 February, 2022 - 1:21pm

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