page_title: Melolontha
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Melolontha / Species
caption_attribution_description: Melolontha hippocastani, from Calwer's K&#228;ferbuch, Table 19, Picture 5. Taxonomy was updated to 2008, using mostly the sites Fauna Europaea and BioLib. Please contact Sarefo if the determination is wrong!
context_page_description: Melolontha is a genus of beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. The European cockchafers belong to this genus.
context_section_description: The following is a list of species within the genus Melolontha:
  Melolontha aceris Faldermann, 1835
  Melolontha afflicta Ballion, 1870
  Melolontha albida Frivaldszky, 1835
  Melolontha anita Reitter, 1902
  Melolontha argus Burmeister 1855
  Melolontha bifurcata (Brenske, 1896)
  Melolontha chinensis (Guerin, 1838)
  Melolontha ciliciensis Petrovitz
  Melolontha flabellata Sharp, 1876
  Melolontha frater Arrow, 1913 – Indonesia
  Melolontha fuscotestacea Kraatz, 1887
  Melolontha guttigera Sharp, 1876
  Melolontha hippocastani Fabricius, 1801 – European forest cockchafer
  Melolontha incana Motschulsky, 1853
  Melolontha insulana Burmeister, 1939
  Melolontha japonica Burmeister, 1855
  Melolontha kraatzi Reitter 1906
  Melolontha melolontha (Linnaeus, 1758) – common European cockchafer
  Melolontha papposa Illiger, 1803
  Melolontha pectoralis Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1812 – European large cockchafer
  Melolontha rubiginosa
  Melolontha rufocrassa Fairmaire, 1889
  Melolontha satsumaenis Niijima & Kinoshita
  Melolontha virescens (Brenske, 1896)
caption: M. hippocastani
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