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Oriental Beetle
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Oriental Beetle

Exomala orientalis

The Oriental beetle (Anomala orientalis, often given as Exomala orientalis, under an invalid genus name ) is a beetle about 0.7 - 1.1 cm (0.3 - 0.4 inches) long, with mottled, metallic brown- and black-colored elytra and a similarly-colored thorax and head during the adult stage. It is sometimes confused with the Japanese beetle. During the larval stage the oriental beetle can be identified by the parallel line raster pattern. It is native to Asia and was...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 359401.