Cockchafer
（重定向自Common Cockchafer）
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![Close up of a male cockchafer, showing the seven](/Images/godic/202501/05/Cockchafer1846.JPG")
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![Melolontha melolontha larva.](/Images/godic/202501/05/Cockshaferlarvae1846.jpg")
The cockchafer (colloquially called May bug, doodlebug, known in Suffolk as a billy witch or spang beetle, and known in Norfolk by the names chovy, mitchamador, kittywitch and midsummer dor,) is a European beetle of the genus Melolontha, in the family Scarabaeidae.