Heptophylla picea is a slim reddish-brown scarab beetle native to East Asia. Its eat roots underground and are a known pest of tree nurseries and tea fields in Japan. It is sometimes called the yellowish elongate chafer.
Appearance
- Appearance
- About 1/2 in (11–14 mm) long, reddish brown, slender and nearly parallel-sided. Females have shorter antennae than males.
Where it lives
- Range
- Native to Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East (including the Kuril Islands). In the US, only a few specimens collected at a Colorado campground in 2022 are on record, and it is not known to be established.
Behavior
- Diet
- Grubs feed on decaying plant matter at first, then on fine roots. Adults eat little or nothing.
Life cycle
- Larva
- A white, C-shaped grub with a yellowish-brown head, growing to about 1 in (25 mm).
Conservation
- IUCN Red List
- NENot EvaluatedNot yet assessed
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