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Popillia japonica🪲

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SpeciesColeopteraScarabaeidae
Arthropods

🪲Japanese beetle

Popillia japonica Newman, 1838

マメコガネ（豆黄金、Popillia japonica）は、コウチュウ目（鞘翅目）・コガネムシ科に分類される甲虫の一種。植物食の小型のコガネムシである。日本在来種。移入した北アメリカでは "Japanese beetle" （ジャパニーズ・ビートル）と呼ばれている。農業上の重要害虫の1つ。

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Also called
Orytes rinojaponyes
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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classInsecta
  4. ›orderColeoptera
  5. ›familyScarabaeidae
  6. ›genusPopillia
  7. ›speciesPopillia japonica
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  1. classInsects · Insecta
  2. orderBeetles · Coleoptera
  3. subfamilyRutelinae
  4. genusPopillia
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumHexapoda
  4. classInsects · Insecta
  5. subclassPterygota
  6. orderBeetles · Coleoptera
  7. suborderPolyphaga
  8. infraorderScarabaeiformia
  9. superfamilyScarabaeoidea
  10. subfamilyRutelinae
  11. genusPopillia
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Хрущик японский (ru), Scarabée japonais (fr), Japanse kever (nl), Popillia japonica (pt), Bọ cánh cứng Nhật Bản (vi), Japankäfer (de) … and 18 more languages
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Popillia japonica366 Japanese Beetles Popillia japonica, Jackson Abbott Wetlands, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia
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