page_title: Pollen beetle
section_title: Pollen beetles in the Nitidulidae
hierarchical_section_title: Pollen beetle / Pollen beetles in the Nitidulidae
caption_attribution_description: Brassicogethes aeneus (syn.: Meligethes aeneus) from Commanster, Belgian High Ardennes .
context_page_description: Pollen beetle is an informal term for any species of beetle associated intimately with suitably pollen-rich species of flowers. Typically such a beetle is adapted to the pollen as a major part of its diet. Species in at least sixteen families of the order Coleoptera could be counted as pollen beetles, and "pollen beetle" also is a common name for some such species.
context_section_description: Several members of the Nitidulidae are similarly referred to as pollen beetles. In particular, practically all the species in the genus Meligethes are called pollen beetles. Of these the most notorious is probably the one now accepted as being properly called Meligethes aeneus/Brassicogethes aeneus.  It is called the "Brassica pollen beetle", "Rape pollen beetle" and similar names, because it first became prominent as a pest of such crops in the first quarter of the 20th century.
caption: Meligethes aeneus
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