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Cetonia
Cetonia aurata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subtribe:	Cetoniina
Genus:	Cetonia Fabricius, 1775
Species
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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

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

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