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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Fruit and Flower Chafers (Cetoniinae) » Valgini » Valgus

Genus Valgus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Works Cited
Valgus - Valgus seticollis Valgus canaliculatus - male Id help needed - Scarab beetle - Valgus - Valgus hemipterus Id help needed - Scarab beetle - Valgus - Valgus hemipterus Flower Chafer - Valgus canaliculatus Beetle on Chamomile - Valgus hemipterus chafer - Valgus canaliculatus Beetle - Valgus - male
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 Cetoniinae (Fruit and Flower Chafers)
Tribe Valgini
Genus Valgus
Explanation of Names
Valgus Scriba 1790
Numbers
4 spp. (of which one adventive) in our area(1), 17 total
Size
5‒8 mm
Identification
elytra leave much of abdomen exposed • ID to species may require close examination(2)(3)
Range
Holarctic and Oriental; in our area, 3 spp. in the e. half of the US (the adventive V. hemipterus into so.ON) and one in CA + so.OR(4)
Habitat
decomposing wood, usually associated with termites; adults visit flowers(1)
Season
Mar‒Jun
Food
larvae of V. canaliculatus feed on walls of termite galleries(2)
Works Cited
1.Synopsis of scarab beetle tribe Valgini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) in the New World
Jameson M.L., Swoboda K.A. 2005. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 98: 658‒672.
2.Scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of South Carolina
Phillip J. Harpootlian. 2001. Clemson University Public Service.
3.The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska
Brett C. Ratcliffe & M.J. Paulsen. 2008. University of Nebraska State Museum, Vol 22, 570 pp.
4.Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles (by Brett Ratcliffe and Mary Liz Jameson)
Contributed by Cotinis on 29 June, 2004 - 4:42pm
Additional contributions by Jeff Gruber, v belov
Last updated 16 November, 2023 - 1:03pm

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