Rhomborhina

Rhomborhina is a genus of large scarab beetles described by Hope in 1837. They are members of the subfamily Cetoniinae. They mostly live in East and South Asia. The name is frequently misspelled as Rhomborrhina following an unjustified change by Hermann Burmeister in 1842.[2]

Rhomborhina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:
Cetoniinae
Genus:
Rhomborhina

Hope, 1837[1]
Synonyms
  • Rhomborrhina Burmeister, 1842

Species
  • Rhomborhina aokii Sakai, 1993
  • Rhomborhina bossioni Bourgoin, 1916
  • Rhomborhina bousqueti Alexis & Delpart, 1998
  • Rhomborhina castanea Sakai, 1997
  • Rhomborhina folschveilleri Devecis, 2008
  • Rhomborhina formosana Moser, 1909
  • Rhomborhina fuscipes Fairmaire, 1893
  • Rhomborhina gestroi Moser, 1903
  • Rhomborhina gigantea Kraatz, 1883
  • Rhomborhina hamai Nomura, 1964
  • Rhomborhina hiekei Ruter, 1965
  • Rhomborhina kurosawai Matsumoto & Sakai, 1987
  • Rhomborhina mellyi (Gory & Percheron, 1833)
  • Rhomborhina microcephala Westwood, 1842
  • Rhomborhina polita Waterhouse, 1875
  • Rhomborhina resplendens (Swartz, 1817)
  • Rhomborhina splendida Moser, 1913
  • Rhomborhina taiwana Sawada, 1949
  • Rhomborhina unicolor Motschulsky, 1861
  • Rhomborhina violacea Schürhoff, 1942
  • Rhomborhina yunnana Moser, 1907

References
  1. "Results for Rhomborhina". Nomenclator Zoologicus. The Zoological Society of London. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  2. "Results for Rhomborrhina". Nomenclator Zoologicus. The Zoological Society of London. Retrieved 3 March 2018.


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