Melolonthini

Melolonthini is a tribe of scarab beetles in the family Scarabaeidae.[1] There are over 250 genera in Melolonthini, occurring worldwide; there are over 300 species in North America alone, and more than 3000 worldwide.[2][3][4]

Melolonthini
Phyllophaga sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Melolonthinae
Tribe: Melolonthini
Leach, 1819
Subtribes
Enariina Dewailly, 1950
Heptophyllina Medvedev, 1951
Leucopholina Burmeister, 1855
Melolonthina Leach, 1819
Pegylina Lacroix, 1989
Rhizotrogina Burmeister, 1855
Schizonychina Burmeister, 1855
Polyphylla occidentalis

Selected genera

References

  1. "Subfamily Melolonthinae - May Beetles and Junebugs - BugGuide.Net". bugguide.net. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  2. "Melolonthini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  3. "Melolonthini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  4. Jia, Zhi‐Chao; Fang, Hong; Jiang, Lu (2021). "Morphological description of the white grub Melolontha incana (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Melolonthini)". Microscopy Research and Technique. 84 (5).
  • 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 ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.


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