Polyphylla

TaxID: 614209

Basic Information

Polyphylla

Lined June Beetles

Polyphylla is a genus of scarab beetle includes more than 80 species distributed in North America and Central America, southern and central Europe, northern Africa, and Southern Asia from Asia Minor to Japan. They typically reside in forests and orchards with most being identified by white elytra scales forming stripes. The adult beetles are often attracted to lights. Polyphylla lay their eggs on soil near plants from where the larvae hatch and burrow down to the roots on which they will feed. They reach maturity in two to three years.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Scarabaeidae

Polyphylla

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Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Ken-ichi Ueda@BY
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(c) Steve Gallagher@BY-NC
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(c) A. Jaszlics@BY-NC
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(c) Don Loarie@BY
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(c) BJ Stacey@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (0 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Unknown/Other

No distribution records available.

Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature