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Cockchafer

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The common cockchafer, known colloquially as the maybug, maybeetle or doodlebug among other names, is a species of scarab beetle in the genus Melolontha, native to Europe. It is one of several closely related and similar-looking Melolontha species called cockchafers, alongside Melolontha hippocastani, which shares sexual dimorphism, mating behavior and physical features such as lamellae count but is a historically divergent species from the common cockchafer. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Scientific Name
Melolontha melolontha 1
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Cockchafer
WikipediaWikidata Q28175 (P225 taxon name)View the Source
Cockchafer (Wikipedia)
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