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 Cetonia aeratula Cetonia angulicollis Cetonia asiatica Cetonia aurata (Rose chafer) Cetonia aurataeformis Cetonia bensoni Cetonia carthami Cetonia chinensis Cetonia cypriaca Cetonia delagrangei Cetonia delfilsi Cetonia filchnerae Cetonia funeraria Cetonia gotoana Cetonia iijimai Cetonia ishigakia Cetonia izuensis Cetonia kemali Cetonia kolbeiCetonia magnifica Cetonia pallida Cetonia pilifera Cetonia pililineata Cetonia pisana Cetonia pokornyi Cetonia prasinata Cetonia pygidionotis Cetonia rhododendri Cetonia roelofsi Cetonia rutilans Cetonia sexguttata Cetonia sichuana Cetonia sicula Cetonia tane Cetonia viridescens Cetonia viridiopaca Cetonia viridiventris
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
The genus Cetonia on Fauna Europaea