Popillia japonica
TaxID: 7064
Basic Information
Popillia japonica
Japanese Beetle, Japanese beetle
The Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) is a species of scarab beetle. Due to the presence of natural predators, the Japanese beetle is not considered a pest in its native Japan. In North America and some regions of Europe, it is a noted pest to roughly 300 species of plants. Some of these plants include roses, grapes, hops, canna, crape myrtles, birch trees, linden trees, and others. The adult beetles damage plants by skeletonizing the foliage (i.e., consuming only the material between a leaf's veins), as well as, at times, feeding on a plant's fruit. The subterranean larvae feed on the roots of grasses.
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Taxonomic Information
Metazoa
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Popillia
japonica
unclassified
Species
nan
k__Metazoa;p__Arthropoda;c__Insecta;o__Coleoptera;f__Scarabaeidae;g__Popillia;s__Popillia japonica
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Arthropods
Photos (5 photos)
Morphological Features
Adults are broadly oval, 8–15 mm long, with metallic green head and thorax and coppery-bronze elytra. Distinctive white tufts of hair: 5 on each side of the abdomen and a pair on the last abdominal segment (pygidium). Antennae 9-segmented with a 3-segmented club. Protibia bidentate with a subapical spur; front and mid tarsi have cleft claws, hind claws simple. Larvae are C-shaped grubs, up to 30 mm long, whitish with tan-brown head.
USDA APHIS. Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica). Available at: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant-pests-diseases/japanese-beetle
Host Plants (88 host plants)
Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.
| Scientific Name | Status |
|---|---|
| Acer palmatum | Host |
| Acer platanoides | Host |
| Actinidia | Host |
| Aesculus hippocastanum | Host |
| Alnus glutinosa | Host |
| Alnus japonica | Host |
| Althaea officinalis | Host |
| Ampelopsis japonica | Host |
| Asparagus | Host |
| Asparagus officinalis | Host |
Quarantine Status (80 records)
Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.
| Country | Status | Year Added |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | Quarantine pests | — |
| Argentina | Absent | 2019 |
| Armenia | Absent | — |
| Austria | Present | 2019 |
| Azerbaijan | Absent | 2024 |
| Burundi | Quarantine pests | — |
| Belgium | Present | 2019 |
| Bulgaria | Present | 2019 |
| Bahrain | Quarantine pests | 2003 |
| Belarus | Present | 1994 |
Distribution (29 countries)
Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.
| Country | Status | State |
|---|---|---|
| Austria | Absent | — |
| Belgium | Absent | — |
| Bhutan | Present | — |
| Canada | Present | |
| Switzerland | Present | — |
| China | Absent | |
| Colombia | Present | — |
| Germany | Present | — |
| Spain | Transient | — |
| France | Transient | — |
Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)
Download CSVGenomes (5 records)
Data source: NCBI.
| Assembly Accession | Assembly Level | Genome Size(Mb) | Contig N50(Kb) | Scaffold N50(Kb) | BUSCO% | Downloads | Actions |
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| GCA_042919845.1 | Scaffold | - | - | - | - | - |
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icPopJapo1.0.p |
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| GCA_042919755.1 | Scaffold | - | - | - | - | - |
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icPopJapo1.0.a |
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| GCA_040143775.1 | Scaffold | - | - | - | - | - |
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PoJapo1.0 |
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| GCA_031211285.1 | Scaffold | - | - | - | - | - |
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ASM3121128v1 |
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| GCA_004785975.1 | Scaffold | 531 | 13 | 15 | - |
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GSC_JBeet_1.0 |
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Transcriptomes (3 records)
Data source: NCBI.
| Run ID | Tissue | Developmental Stage | Sex | Read Count | Location | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SRR24874050 | whole body | adult | - | 33731029 | Italy: Trecate | |
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PRJNA860365 SRX20637945 SRP388131 insect RNA-Seq of Popillia japonica: exposed to Vestergaard Long Lasting Net, 8h after exposure, sample LLIN8_6 TruSeq stranded mRNA LLIN8_6 {'tissue': 'whole body', 'isolate': 'LLIN8_6', 'lat_lon': '45.4343488 N 8.6951257 E', 'dev_stage': 'adult', 'collected_by': 'Francesco Paoli', 'geo_loc_name': 'Italy: Trecate', 'biosamplemodel': 'Invertebrate', 'collection_date': '2022-06-15', 'isolation_source': 'Italian invasive population'} |
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| SRR24874049 | whole body | adult | - | 31755301 | Italy: Trecate | |
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PRJNA860365 SRX20637946 SRP388131 insect RNA-Seq of Popillia japonica: exposed to Vestergaard Long Lasting Net, 8h after exposure, sample LLIN8_3 TruSeq stranded mRNA LLIN8_3 {'tissue': 'whole body', 'isolate': 'LLIN8_3', 'lat_lon': '45.4343488 N 8.6951257 E', 'dev_stage': 'adult', 'collected_by': 'Francesco Paoli', 'geo_loc_name': 'Italy: Trecate', 'biosamplemodel': 'Invertebrate', 'collection_date': '2022-06-15', 'isolation_source': 'Italian invasive population'} |
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| SRR24874048 | whole body | adult | - | 32882752 | Italy: Trecate | |
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PRJNA860365 SRX20637947 SRP388131 insect RNA-Seq of Popillia japonica: exposed to Vestergaard Long Lasting Net, 8h after exposure, sample LLIN8_9 TruSeq stranded mRNA LLIN8_9 {'tissue': 'whole body', 'isolate': 'LLIN8_9', 'lat_lon': '45.4343488 N 8.6951257 E', 'dev_stage': 'adult', 'collected_by': 'Francesco Paoli', 'geo_loc_name': 'Italy: Trecate', 'biosamplemodel': 'Invertebrate', 'collection_date': '2022-06-15', 'isolation_source': 'Italian invasive population'} |
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Literature
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