melolonthid beetle

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1.melolonthid beetle - any of various beetles of the family (or subfamily) Melolonthidaescarabaean, scarabaeid, scarabaeid beetle - any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikescockchafer, May beetle, May bug, Melolontha melolontha - any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adultMacrodactylus subspinosus, rose bug, rose chafer - common North American beetle: larvae feed on roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. rose bushes or apple trees or grape vines