Cetonia
| Cetonia | |
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| Cetonia aurata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subtribe: | Cetoniina |
| Genus: | Fabricius, 1775 |
| Species | |
Cetonia is a genus of beetles in family Scarabaeidae, belonging to the subfamily Cetoniinae. 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 Heterorhina elegans, a species (Goliathini) found in India and Sri Lanka
References
- Johan Christian Fabricius : Genera insectorum (1777)
External links
Media related to Cetonia at Wikimedia Commons- The genus Cetonia on Fauna Europaea
