| Scarlet lily beetle | |
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| Lily beetles mating, Oxfordshire, UK | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Criocerinae |
| Tribe: | Criocerini |
| Genus: | Lilioceris |
| Species: | L. lilii
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| Binomial name | |
| Lilioceris lilii | |
The scarlet lily beetle, red lily beetle, or lily leaf beetle (Lilioceris lilii), is a leaf beetle that eats the leaves, stem, buds, and flowers, of lilies, fritillaries and other members of the family Liliaceae. It lays its eggs most often on Lilium and Fritillaria species. In the absence of Lilium and Fritillaria species, there are fewer eggs laid and the survival rate of eggs and larvae is reduced.[2] It is now a pest in most temperate climates where lilies are cultivated.
- ^ Scopoli, I.A. (1763). Entomologia carniolica exhibens insecta carnioliae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates. Methodo Linnæana. Vindobonae [= Vienna]: Trattner. pp. [30] + 420 pp. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- ^ Ernst, Crystal; Cappuccino, Naomi; Arnason, John Thor (2007). "Potential novel hosts for the lily leaf beetle Lilioceris lilii Scopoli (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in eastern North America". Ecological Entomology. 32 (1): 45–52. Bibcode:2007EcoEn..32...45E. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.2006.00834.x. S2CID 84675688.