Lepidiota consobrina

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| taxon = Lepidiota consobrina

| authority = Girault, 1918

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Lepidiota consobrina, the consobrina cane grub,{{cite web|url=http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/name_c/a_1049.htm|title=1. consobrina canegrub|publisher=Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation|accessdate=15 January 2011}} is a beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is a pest of sugarcane, and occurs from Mossman to Gordonvale (Queensland, Australia), changing from a one-year lifecycle south of Cairns to a two-year lifecycle further north.{{cite book |editor=Peter T. Bailey |year=2007 |title=Pests of Field Crops and Pastures: Identification and Control |publisher=CSIRO Publishing |isbn=978-0-643-06758-5 |author1=M. N. Sallam |author2=P. G. Allsopp |author3=K. J. Chandler |author4=P. R. Samson |chapter=Sugarcane |pages=305–342 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N10sAEHunWEC&pg=PA327}}

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