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.

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Scarab beetles is a group, not a type.

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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

It might be Compsus auricephalus, the golden-headed weevil

Thanks so much Locrian 44 - I do appreciate it.