Phyllophaga balia (Say, 1825)

Freese, Edwin L., Veal, Doug A. & Lago, Paul K., 2020, The Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Iowa: An annotated checklist, Insecta Mundi 2020 (787), pp. 1-83 : 34

Phyllophaga balia (Say, 1825)

Wickham 1911; Travis 1934; Rice and Riley 2000; Worthington and Larsen 2010; ISIC; IWUC; UMRC; WCIC; ELFC; DAVC.

Collection dates: April–July.

Collected at light and under horse dung.

Travis (1934) reported 23 specimens from Iowa indicating this species was rarely encountered during his collecting activities in Iowa ; Rice and Riley (2000) found it to be very common in the East Reactor Woods , Ames, Iowa .

County records ( Figure 117 ): Allamakee, Appanoose, Boone, Clayton, Dallas, Decatur, Fremont, Henry, Jones, Lee, Linn, Muscatine, Story, Van Buren, Winneshiek.

Figures

Figures 114–121. Distribution of Scarabaeoidea in Iowa. 114) Macrodactylus subspinosus (Fabricius, 1775). 115) Phyllophaga affabilis (Horn, 1887). 116) Phyllophaga anxia (LeConte, 1850). 117) Phyllophaga balia (Say, 1825). 118) Phyllophaga barda (Horn, 1887).119) Phyllophaga bipartita (Horn, 1887).120) Phyllophaga congrua (LeConte,