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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) » tristis Complex (Phyllophaga tristis)
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May Beetle - Phyllophaga tristis
Copyright © 2010 John Pearson

May Beetle - Phyllophaga tristis
Ackworth, Warren County, Iowa, USA
May 15, 2010
Size: ~2 cm
This beetle had blundered into an ant mound at the edge of my lawn and a grassy old field and was being swarmed when I came along and rescued it. (I released it in an ant-free flower garden after these photos.)

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Contributed by John Pearson on 15 May, 2010 - 7:42pm
Last updated 20 November, 2010 - 5:02pm

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Moved from May Beetles.
… v belov, 20 November, 2010 - 4:14pm login or register to post comments

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… Blaine Mathison, 15 May, 2010 - 9:02pm login or register to post comments

Phyllophaga
WOuld need specimen to key out. There are a couple hairy species, and in some of the pruinose species you need male genitilia.
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