Melolontha is a genus of beetles in the family Scarabaeidae.

The following is a list of species within the genus Melolontha:

Its life cycle includes beetles of the genus Melolontha as intermediate hosts.

Besides there is a larger population of the May beetle (Melolontha melolontha).

Melolontha melolontha entomopoxvirus (type species)

(1824): Naturgeschichte des Maykäfers (Melolontha vulgaris Fabr.)

Étienne Louis Geoffroy used Melolontha as a genus name (1762), but his book has been suppressed by the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, and the authority for the name is the later (1775) publication by Johan Christian Fabricius.

Many of these compositions were written for the Maikäferbund (Maikäfer Group - the Maikäfer being the beetle Melolontha melolontha which emerges from the ground in May), a group of poets - or people who thought they were poets - which she directed and Gottfried also helped lead.