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Noun may beetle has 2 senses
- cockchafer, May bug, May beetle, Melolontha melolontha - any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult
--1 is a kind of melolonthid beetle
--1 is a member of Melolontha, genus Melolontha
- June beetle, June bug, May bug, May beetle - any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.
--2 is a kind of scarabaeid beetle, scarabaeid, scarabaean
--2 has particulars: green June beetle, figeater
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