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Rutelinae
Rutelinae or shining leaf chafers is a subfamily of the scarab beetles (family Scarabaeidae). It is a very diverse group; distributed over most of the world, it contains some 200 genera with over 4,000 described species in 7 tribes. Several taxa have yet to be described. A few recent classifications include the tribe Hopliini, but this is not generally accepted. Description Unlike some of their relatives, their habitus is usually lacking in ornamentation, such as horns. They resemble the Melolonthinae in being fairly plesiomorphic in outward appearance. Many species have brilliant or iridescent hues, however, such as the genus '' Chrysina'', and a number of species are serious pests (e.g., the Japanese beetle). Behavior Feeding Adult Rutelinae feed on leaves, flowers, and flower parts. Larvae feed on decaying wood, compost or roots. Tribes * Adoretini * Alvarengiini * Anatistini (= Spodochlamyini) * Anomalini * Anoplognathini * Geniatini * Rutelini Additionally t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutelini
Rutelini is a tribe of shining leaf chafers in the family Scarabaeidae. There are about 14 genera and at least 40 described species in Rutelini. Genera * '' Calomacraspis'' Bates, 1888 * '' Chrysina'' Kirby, 1828 * '' Cotalpa'' Burmeister, 1844 * '' Ectinoplectron'' Ohaus, 1915 * '' Homoiosternus'' Ohaus, 1901 * ''Parabyrsopolis ''Parabyrsopolis'' is a genus of beetles in the family Scarabaeidae The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 35,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of th ...'' Ohaus, 1915 * '' Parachrysina'' Bates, 1888 * '' Paracotalpa'' Ohaus, 1915 * '' Parastasia'' Westwood, 1842 * '' Pelidnota'' MacLeay, 1819 * '' Plesiosternus'' Morón, 1983 * '' Pseudocotalpa'' Hardy, 1971 * '' Rutela'' Latreille, 1802 * '' Rutelisca'' Bates, 1888 References Further reading * * * * Rutelinae {{Rutelinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anomalini
Anomalini is a tribe of shining leaf chafers in the family Scarabaeidae. There are about 1300 described species in Anomalini worldwide, including 60 in North America. Selected genera * ''Anomala'' Samouelle, 1819 * ''Anomalacra'' Casey, 1915 * ''Leptohoplia'' Saylor, 1935 * ''Mimela'' Kirby, 1823 * ''Paranomala'' Casey, 1915 * ''Popillia'' Dejean, 1821 * ''Rhinyptia'' Burmeister, 1844 * ''Strigoderma'' Burmeister, 1844 References * Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ''ZooKeys, vol. 88'', 1–972. Further reading * Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). ''American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida . * * Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company. Rutelinae {{Rutelinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geniatini
Geniatini is a tribe of shining leaf chafers in the family Scarabaeidae The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 35,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change. Several groups formerly tre .... There are about 10-13 genera and at over 300 described species in Rutelini. Genera * '' Bolax'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1829 * '' Eunanus'' Ohaus, 1909 * '' Evanos'' Laporte, 1840 * '' Geniates'' Kirby, 1808 * '' Geniatosoma'' Costa Lima, 1940 * '' Heterogeniates'' Ohaus, 1909 * '' Leucothyreus'' MacLeay, 1819 * '' Lobogeniates'' Ohaus, 1917 * '' Microchilus'' Blanchard, 1951 * '' Mimogeniates'' Martínez, 1964 * '' Rhizogeniates'' Ohaus, 1909 * '' Trizogeniates'' Ohaus, 1917 * '' Xenogeniates'' Villatoro and Jameson, 2001 References Further reading * * Rutelinae Polyphaga tribes {{Rutelinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anoplognathini
Anoplognathini is a tribe of scarab beetles belonging to the subfamily Rutelinae, a group endemic to the Neotropical and Australasian realm, Australian biogeographic realms. Subtribes * Anoplognathina * Schizognathina * Phalangogoniina * Platycoeliina * Brachysternina References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15706502 Rutelinae, . Beetle tribes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anomalites
''Anomalites'' is an extinct genus of shining leaf chafer scarab beetle which contains the solitary species ''Anomalites fugitivus''. The species was found preserved in Eocene age quartz from Central France and was first described by Antonín Frič. Distribution The only known specimen was recovered from "freshwater quartz" () quarried in Nogent-le-Rotrou of Centre-Val de Loire, France before 1885. The quartz deposits were initially dated only as generally Tertiary, but later refinement of the age estimates have given an age in the Priabonian of the Eocene. History and classification The only known ''Anomalites fugitivus'' fossil was discovered by V. Spigl, a worker in the Prague millstone factory owned by Gabrial Zizka. During the carving process, Spigl encountered a small pocket in the freshwater quartz with the quartz cast replacement of the beetle preserved inside. The beetle and cavity were saved and shown to Zizka, who in turn entrusted same to Czech paleontologist Anton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarabaeidae
The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 35,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change. Several groups formerly treated as subfamilies have been elevated to family rank (e.g., Bolboceratidae, Geotrupidae, Glaresidae, Glaphyridae, Hybosoridae, Ochodaeidae, and Pleocomidae), and some reduced to lower ranks. The subfamilies listed in this article are in accordance with those in Catalog of Life (2023). Description Scarabs are stout-bodied beetles; most are brown or black in colour, but many, generally species that are diurnally active, have bright metallic colours, measuring between . The antenna (biology), antennae of most species superficially seem to be knobbed (capitate), but the several segments comprising the head of the antenna are, as a rule, lamellate: they extend laterally into plates called lamella (zoology), lamellae that they usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melolonthinae
Melolonthinae is a subfamily of the Scarabaeidae, scarab beetles (family (biology), family Scarabaeidae). It is a very diverse group; distributed over most of the world, it contains over 11,000 species in over 750 genera. Some authors include the scarab subfamilies Euchirinae and Pachypodinae as tribe (biology), tribes in the Melolonthinae. Unlike some of their relatives, their Morphology (biology), habitus is usually not bizarre. They resemble the Rutelinae in being fairly plesiomorphic in outward appearance. Like in many Scarabaeidae, males have large fingered antenna (biology), antennae, while those of the females are smaller and somewhat knobby. In the Melolonthinae, this sexual dimorphism is particularly pronounced. Many species have striking – though rarely brilliant or iridescent – hues and bold patterns of hairs. Being often quite sizeable and swarming in numbers at certain times, for example the ''Amphimallon'', ''Phyllophaga'' and ''Polyphylla'' "June beetle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Beetle
The Japanese beetle (''Popillia japonica'') is a species of Scarabaeidae, scarab beetle. Due to the presence of Predation, natural predators, the Japanese beetle is not considered a pest in its native Japan, but in North America and some regions of Europe, it is a noted Pest (organism), pest to roughly 300 species of plants. Some of these plants include rose bushes, grapes, hops, canna (plant), canna, crape myrtles, birch trees, Tilia, linden trees, and others. The adult beetles damage plants by Skeletonization, 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. Taxonomy English entomologist Edward Newman (entomologist), Edward Newman described the Japanese beetle in 1841. Description Adult ''P. japonica'' measure in length and in width, with iridescent copper-colored elytra and green thorax and head. A row of white tufts (spots) of hair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hopliini
Monkey beetles are scarab beetles, a group of around 70 genera and 850 described species within the tribe Hopliini. The placement of this tribe within the family Scarabaeidae is uncertain between Melolonthinae and Rutelinae. Many species visit flowers for pollen and nectar, or to browse on the petals. The beetles are important pollinators of Aizoaceae and Asteraceae in grazed and ungrazed areas, as well as many others. They tend to favor flowers of white, yellow, pink, orange, and blue pigments. They also tend to favor flowers of symmetrical, abstract patterns.Shelley A Johnson, Susan W Nicolson, Pollen digestion by flower-feeding Scarabaeidae: protea beetles (Cetoniini) and monkey beetles (Hopliini), Journal of Insect Physiology, Volume 47, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 725-733, ISSN 0022-1910, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022 1910(00)00166-9. Due to their pollination patterns, many plants evolved special features in order to attract monkey beetles, such as the Iridaceae which now have br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nogent-le-Rotrou
Nogent-le-Rotrou () is a commune in the department of Eure-et-Loir, northern France. It is a sub-prefecture and is located on the river Huisne, 56 kilometres west of Chartres on the RN23 and 150 kilometres south west of Paris, to which it is linked by both rail and motorway. It was the former capital of the Perche with the count living in the impressive medieval Château Saint-Jean which still dominates the town from a plateau of the same name. Economy The town lies within the Perche at the heart of a vast agricultural zone. Many jobs were therefore tied to agriculture, but the numbers declined sharply from the late 1970s with up to 5% of jobs being shed each year. Industrial employment owed much to the automotive sector which counted for almost 10% of jobs in the 1980s and 1990s and these were heavily linked to components manufacturer, Valeo. The company had a local workforce of over 1000 in 1999, but this too has been in decline as Valeo has delocalised to follow clients suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
