F-494655, F-494654 
FIGURE 43.—Phyllophaga species: A. adult; B, white grubs. 
Phyllophaga luctuosa (Horn) occurs primarily along the At- 
lantic and Gulf Coasts in sandy, oak-pine regions, but also farther 
north and inland to Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Iowa. Adults are 
dark-brown to black, moderately shiny, and about 21 mm. long. 
They feed on persimmon, mulberry, tupelo, walnut, willow, beech, 
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