Melolontha melolontha
Common Cockchafer
- Category
- invertebrate
- Primary role
- pest insect
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Melolonthidae
- Genus
- Melolontha
Animalia | Arthropoda | Insecta | Coleoptera | Scarabaeidae | Melolontha
External: GBIF #4990995
0 AI-consensus-verified claims .
No verified claims involving this entity yet.
Genus-level evidence
1 claim where the source named the organism only at the genus or collective level (e.g. Melolontha sp.) and did not determine the species. Listed separately because they apply to the genus, not specifically to Melolontha melolontha.
- herbivory · Melolontha spp. → Solanum tuberosum · effect: harmful
“Brahmina coriacea; H. longipennis; Melolantha sp., Anomala sp.”
Ali S. (2018) · Field Guide for Identification of Major Potato Pests and Diseases in Meghalaya, India · p. 4 #6495818
Aggregated via GloBI — not independently verified by AgroEco.
biocontrol 5
- GloBI preysOn Melolontha melolontha Reji Chacko, M., Albouy, C., Altermatt, F., Brändle, M., Casanelles Abella, J., Boussange, V., Campell, F., Ellis, W. N., Fopp, F., Gossner, M. M., Ho., H., Joss, A., Kipf, P., Neff, F., Petrović, A., Prié, V., Tomanović, Ž., Zimmerli, N., Pellissier, L. (2024). trophiCH v1 - a food web for Switzerland. EnviDat. https://www.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.467. Accessed at <https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/trophiCH/archive/9dcb8b2670c4675817c605f5add33cd183d3fb0e.zip> on 23 May 2026.
- GloBI preysOn Melolontha melolontha Reji Chacko, M., Albouy, C., Altermatt, F., Brändle, M., Casanelles Abella, J., Boussange, V., Campell, F., Ellis, W. N., Fopp, F., Gossner, M. M., Ho., H., Joss, A., Kipf, P., Neff, F., Petrović, A., Prié, V., Tomanović, Ž., Zimmerli, N., Pellissier, L. (2024). trophiCH v1 - a food web for Switzerland. EnviDat. https://www.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.467. Accessed at <https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/trophiCH/archive/9dcb8b2670c4675817c605f5add33cd183d3fb0e.zip> on 23 May 2026.
- GloBI preysOn Melolontha melolontha https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/47387505
- GloBI preysOn Melolontha melolontha https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/118642828
- GloBI eats Melolontha melolontha Michalczuk, J., & Michalczuk, M. (2017). Diet variability of Syrian Woodpecker Dendrocopos syriacus nestlings in the rural landscape of SE Poland. North-Western Journal of Zoology, 13(2).
herbivory 1
- GloBI eats Aesculus hippocastanum https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/216345285
biocontrol 5
- GloBI preysOn Melolontha melolontha Reji Chacko, M., Albouy, C., Altermatt, F., Brändle, M., Casanelles Abella, J., Boussange, V., Campell, F., Ellis, W. N., Fopp, F., Gossner, M. M., Ho., H., Joss, A., Kipf, P., Neff, F., Petrović, A., Prié, V., Tomanović, Ž., Zimmerli, N., Pellissier, L. (2024). trophiCH v1 - a food web for Switzerland. EnviDat. https://www.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.467. Accessed at <https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/trophiCH/archive/9dcb8b2670c4675817c605f5add33cd183d3fb0e.zip> on 23 May 2026.
- GloBI preysOn Melolontha melolontha Reji Chacko, M., Albouy, C., Altermatt, F., Brändle, M., Casanelles Abella, J., Boussange, V., Campell, F., Ellis, W. N., Fopp, F., Gossner, M. M., Ho., H., Joss, A., Kipf, P., Neff, F., Petrović, A., Prié, V., Tomanović, Ž., Zimmerli, N., Pellissier, L. (2024). trophiCH v1 - a food web for Switzerland. EnviDat. https://www.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.467. Accessed at <https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/trophiCH/archive/9dcb8b2670c4675817c605f5add33cd183d3fb0e.zip> on 23 May 2026.
- GloBI preysOn Melolontha melolontha https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/47387505
- GloBI preysOn Melolontha melolontha https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/118642828
- GloBI eats Melolontha melolontha Michalczuk, J., & Michalczuk, M. (2017). Diet variability of Syrian Woodpecker Dendrocopos syriacus nestlings in the rural landscape of SE Poland. North-Western Journal of Zoology, 13(2).
crop interaction 1
- GloBI eats Aesculus hippocastanum https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/216345285