Cetonia
Cetonia is a genus of beetles in family Scarabaeidae. One of the most familiar species is the rose chafer (C. aurata).
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| Cetonia aurata | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subtribe: | Cetoniina |
| Genus: | Cetonia Fabricius, 1775 |
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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
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