japanese beetle

English Thesaurus

1. small metallic green and brown beetle native to eastern Asia; serious plant pest in North America (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	scarabaean, scarabaeid, scarabaeid beetle,
definition	:	any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus popillia, popillia,
definition	:	a genus of Scarabaeidae (noun.animal)