Animal field guide
Green Chafer Beetle
Anomala cupripes
A large, gleaming green chafer whose adults chew the leaves of an unusually wide range of trees and shrubs, from fruit trees to garden ornamentals. Feeding inward from the leaf edge, groups of beetles can leave foliage ragged and lace-like.
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Invertebrate · Southeast Asia · Orchards · Relatively common
Known for: Glossy metallic green back and wing cases, Coppery or purplish-red underside and legs, Stout, Antennae ending in a small folding club
Animal field guide
Green Chafer Beetle
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A large, gleaming green chafer whose adults chew the leaves of an unusually wide range of trees and shrubs, from fruit trees to garden ornamentals. Feeding inward from the leaf edge, groups of beetles can leave foliage ragged and lace-like.
Native range
Natural range, not this capture location
Orchards, plantations, gardens, forest edges and scrub in southern China and mainland Southeast Asia, where larvae develop in soil rich in organic matter.
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Dominance
4
Speed
27
Size
2
Intelligence
7
Rarity
18%
Total
58
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Introduction to Green Chafer Beetle
A large, gleaming green chafer whose adults chew the leaves of an unusually wide range of trees and shrubs, from fruit trees to garden ornamentals. Feeding inward from the leaf edge, groups of beetles can leave foliage ragged and lace-like.
How to identify a Green Chafer Beetle
- Glossy metallic green back and wing cases
- Coppery or purplish-red underside and legs
- Stout, oval body about two centimetres long
- Antennae ending in a small folding club
Why Green Chafer Beetle are interesting
- Adults fly to lights at night, and light traps are used in orchards to monitor and reduce their numbers.
- It belongs to the shining leaf chafers, Rutelinae, the same subfamily of scarab beetles as the Japanese beetle and the European garden chafer.
- In southern China it usually has one generation a year, with adults emerging during the warm, wet months of late spring and summer.
- The name cupripes means copper-footed, from the Latin words for copper and foot, referring to its coppery legs.
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Adaptations and biological abilities
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Why does Green Chafer Beetle behave this way?
- Glossy metallic green back and wing cases
- Coppery or purplish-red underside and legs
- Stout, oval body about two centimetres long
- Antennae ending in a small folding club
Adults are thought to be most active at dusk and during the night, when they fly and feed; by day many probably rest among leaves or in the soil below host plants.
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Why Orchards?
Habitat: Orchards, plantations, gardens, forest edges and scrub in southern China and mainland Southeast Asia, where larvae develop in soil rich in organic matter.
Native range: Southeast Asia, East Asia
Native range
Natural range, not this specific capture location.
Orchards, plantations, gardens, forest edges and scrub in southern China and mainland Southeast Asia, where larvae develop in soil rich in organic matter.
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Why this diet?
Adult food plants are reported to include mango, litchi, longan, grape and rose among many other broadleaved plants. The larvae, C-shaped white grubs, eat roots and decaying organic matter in the soil.
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Activity, rest, and lifespan
Adults are thought to be most active at dusk and during the night, when they fly and feed; by day many probably rest among leaves or in the soil below host plants.
Usually one generation a year, most of it spent as a soil-dwelling larva; adults are thought to live about one to two months.
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Green Chafer Beetle reproduction
Females lay eggs in moist soil. The white grubs feed underground for most of the year, passing through three larval stages, then pupate in an earthen cell.
The sexes look alike in colour and size and are not easily told apart in the field.
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Predators, threats, and defense
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Conservation and rarity
Rarity: Relatively common · 18/100. AnimalDex canonical rarity score: 18/100, maintained by the live indexed species profile.
- Observe from a respectful distance and avoid changing the animal's behavior.
- Do not block feeding, shelter, nesting, or travel routes.
- Use a live camera capture without handling or staging wildlife.
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Where to find them
Where to find Green Chafer Beetle
To find Green Chafer Beetle in the wild, focus on the exact habitat patches that match its body design and daily behavior, not just the broad country where it exists. You usually do better by working one good piece of habitat inside southeast Asia, East Asia than by covering too much ground.
- Forest edge, canopy gaps, fruiting trees, or shaded trails where cover and food meet
- Protected habitat blocks within southeast Asia, East Asia
Scientific name
Anomala cupripes
Category
Invertebrate
Habitat
Orchards, plantations, gardens, forest edges and scrub in southern China and mainland Southeast Asia, where larvae develop in soil rich in organic matter.
Rarity
Relatively common · 18/100
Native range
Southeast Asia, East Asia
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