Cetonia
Cetonia | |
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Cetonia aurata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Scarabaeidae |
Subfamily: | Cetoniinae |
Tribe: | Cetoniini |
Subtribe: | Cetoniina |
Genus: | Cetonia Fabricius, 1775 |
Species | |
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Cetonia is a genus of beetles in family Scarabaeidae. One of the most familiar species is the rose chafer (C. aurata).
Species
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- Names brought to synonymy
- Cetonia elegans Leoni, 1910, a synonym for Cetonia aurata pisana, a subspecies (Cetoniini) of the rose chafer
- Cetonia elegans Fabricius, 1781, a synonym for Heterorrhina elegans, a species (Goliathini) found in India and Sri Lanka
References
- Johan Christian Fabricius : Genera insectorum (1777)
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