Cetonia
Appearance
Cetonia | |
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Cetonia aurata | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Scarabaeidae |
Subtribe: | Cetoniina |
Genus: | Cetonia Fabricius, 1775 |
Species | |
Cetonia is a genus of beetles in family Scarabaeidae. One of the most familiar species is the rose chafer (C. aurata).
Species
[edit]- 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
[edit]External links
[edit]Media related to Cetonia at Wikimedia Commons
- The genus Cetonia on Fauna Europaea