Trichiotinus is a genus of fruit and flower chafers in the family Scarabaeidae. There are about 8 described species in Trichiotinus, all native to the New World.
Species Trichiotinus affinis (Gory & Percheron, 1833) Trichiotinus assimilis (Kirby, 1837) (hairy flower scarab) Trichiotinus bibens (Fabricius, 1775) Trichiotinus lunulatus (Fabricius, 1775) (emerald flower scarab) Trichiotinus piger (Fabricius, 1775) (bee-like flower scarab) Trichiotinus rufobrunneus (Casey, 1914) Trichiotinus texanus (Horn, 1876) (Texas flower scarab) Trichiotinus viridans (Kirby, 1837)
References
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (2006). "OPINION 2162 (Case 3314): Stegopterus Burmeister and Schaum, 1840 and Trichiotinus Casey, 1915 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae): conserved". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 63, part 4, 278–279.
Further reading
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Trichiotinus Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.