I've lived in the Houston, TX area for 25 years and have never seen this insect, which has been popping up inside my house a lot this month. Does anyone know what it is? It looks like a type of June bug - but not exactly. It has a beautiful pale green exoskeleton that is very, very hard. It likes to play dead too.

Looks like a scarab of some type, but you're right, it isn't a June bug. Do all the ones you've found have the brown coloration on the head?


Edit: Likely a Chafer Beetle.

Yes - they all have the brown heads. A scarab, really?

Scarab beetles is a group, not a type.

Scarab beetles is a group, not a type.

Thank you - they do look similar to jewel scarabs except their bodies are less rounded. They are very slow-moving too.

Phylum Arthropoda, Class Insecta, Order Coleoptera, Family Curculionidae. Members of the family are commonly called weevils. Google image search (https://www.google.com/search?q=circulionidae&newwindow=1&safe=off&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=6cVmU9uXDozxoASjsYKwDA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1280&bih=610)

It might be Compsus auricephalus (http://symbiota4.acis.ufl.edu/scan/portal/taxa/index.php?taxauthid=1&taxon=8801&cl=1), the golden-headed weevil (http://bugguide.net/node/view/207373/bgimage)

Thanks so much Locrian 44 - I do appreciate it.