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Polyphylla olivieri
Polyphylla olivieri is a species of beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is distributed throughout Transcaucasia, Greece up to Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Azerbaijan, and Iran. Adult body length 30–37.8 mm; width 14.2–18.5 mm. Adults are black or brownish black, forewings are covered with white, marbled spots. The antennal club is black and brown. They live on dense soils, as opposed to the pine chafer (Polyphylla fullo), which live on sands. They live in loamy soils,...
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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 360354.