Cetonia
| Cetonia | |
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| Cetonia aurata | |
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| 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 Media related to Cetonia at Wikimedia Commons
- The genus Cetonia on Fauna Europaea